In Keeping with the Johns Hopkins Model, the Birth of an Intersex

question 20

Multiple Choice

In keeping with the Johns Hopkins model, the birth of an intersex infant today is deemed a "psychosocial emergency" that propels a multidisciplinary team of intersex specialists into action. Significantly, they are surgeons and endocrinologists rather than psychologists, bioethicists, representatives from inter- sex peer support organizations, or parents of intersex children. The team examines the infant and chooses either male or female as a "_______," then informs the parents that this is the child's "_______." Medical technology, including surgery and hormones, is then used to make the child's body conform as closely as possible to that sex.

• A) sex of assignment; true sex
• B) biology; gender
• C) assigned sex; affirmed gender
• D) affirmed gender; assigned sex

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Consideration

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