Forgive me for not grokking this, and with respect (and I want you to know that I DO greatly respect your professional opinions — I am learning so much from this conversation), I am still having trouble understanding why you view biological sex as a binary. Intersex conditions exist, yes? Anatomically, genetically,…

Congrats on your baby-to-be!

Why not? EU states, particularly in Northern Europe, are already heading in this direction. Might as well say, "We will NEVER have an equal rights society."

Your questions were not directed at me but I hope you don't mind if I weigh in here, as a more or less (mostly less) gender-neutral parenting parent of more or less (mostly more) non-gender-conforming children. :)

One more thing! I understand why physicians examine infant's genitals for signs of health or disease, but I still don't understand why this necessitates sex assignment (let alone sex assignment based on a binary). If the genitals conform to normal, why not just report "normal genitals"?

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I can see that you are a sensitive physician.

So, let's unpack this a bit. I suspect that of those majority 99.9998%, what most really want is not a sex assignment but a gender assignment, or more accurately, a point of reference for determining their children's gender. As this thread…

Your post makes me wish that I, as a parent, had refused sex assignment of my children at birth. For one thing, it might have eased the pressure we came under from the pediatrician and hospital staff to have our son circumcised (even though we made it clear from the beginning that we did not want this). For another, I…

There are many, many legal ramifications to being assigned one sex over another, yes? As I'm understanding it, that is not the fault of individual doctors, but it is something for which the medical community as a whole are at least partly culpable (by implicitly condoning either/or sex assignment in the creation of a…

Hi, cis straight female here. I guess my question to you, as a pediatrician, is why you feel that it's necessary to assign biological sex to babies? And what do you do in those rare cases when you do have to assign a biological sex to an intersex baby? Isn't it kind of a problem when that happens and you have no box…

The tinfoil swan of wedding gowns.

Is this even Rachel Ray?

I confess, I read your posts in the voice of Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.

I'm also wondering if some of the more atrocious photoshopping disasters are down to "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT I SAVED OVER THE ORIGINAL FILE AND CAN'T UNDO WHAT I DONE FUCKED UP"

So I am wondering if this is a composite fuck-up, vs. a slimming retouch. The head doesn't look in proportion to the hands or lower body.

*THERE a statute of limitations

I get this sentiment. I get the rage. I'm a mother myself and my instinct is to unleash holy hell on people who do harm to children. But then I have to ask myself, What kind of evil did these people receive themselves as children, to do such evil now? Do we get to feel the same rage for the horrors they experienced as…

A woman who has been raped wrote a serious article on rape culture. The comments section may not be the best place or time for a silly Rangers joke. At best, your joke is a non sequitur. But at 642 stars (and counting), it's a derailment.

That is so great that you can switch gears like that. Any tips you want to share? I wonder if I need some new sexy "me" bras in addition to all my nursing ones... Although, for me I don't know if it's so much that I don't see my gals as sexy anymore (because dang, they've earned their playtime!) as that I just feel…

Ouch! That should never happen with a good latch. My first baby had tongue-tie which we didn't get diagnosed for several months, and I was in SO MUCH PAIN. I wish now that I'd reached out for help a lot sooner, because as soon as we corrected the latch, all the pain disappeared...

Re: Sexualization, actually the study you link to notes, "Women need to be reassured that while pelvic sexual arousal is ***not*** a common response to breastfeeding, when these feelings occur they are normal." (emphasis added)