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'''Sex''' refers to physical characteristics developed in the womb. Often used in reference to genitals and secondary sexual characteristics.
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Binary sexes are Male or Female.
[[File:ZwitterHauhechelblaeuling.jpg|thumb|A Common Blue (''Polyommatus icarus'') individual that is a gynandromorph, having a female form on one side and male on the other. Gynandromorphs occur in some animal species.]]
Sex is not to be confused with [[gender identity]]. Female does not mean feminine. Male does not mean masculine.
'''Sex''' is a system of categories, a way of putting kinds of bodies into categories. Living things of many species evolved to be specialized into their own male, female, and [[Intersex|intersex]] kinds, each known as a sex. A sex is generally determined by reproductive body parts. In humans, these imply-- but do not prove-- a correlation with chromosomes. In gender studies, the sex and [[gender]] of a person are thought of as two distinct things.


People will often refer to their assigned sex and or gender with an acronym, see [[Assigned at birth]].
When people speak of a person's "sex", usually what they really mean is their [[assigned gender at birth]]. This is because a person's sex is much more difficult to determine than most people believe. For example, chromosomes are part of defining someone's sex, but most people never get their chromosomes tested. A baby's assigned gender at birth is based on only one thing: the presence or absence of what a doctor thinks is probably a penis. This will be the only basis of that child's [[Legal gender|legal gender/sex]]. As the person grows up, the doctor's guess about their sex can turn out to be wrong, because some [[intersex]] conditions only become clear once a person has gone through puberty. Even then, the person might have unusual chromosomes or internal reproductive organs without ever knowing about it.


Sex may be altered through hormones and or surgery.
"Sex identity" can mean either how a person categorizes their own physical sex,<ref>"LGBTQI Terminology." [http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf]</ref><ref>"LGBT resources: Definition of terms." [http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms]</ref> or it can mean how other people categorize that person's sex.<ref>"Trans, genderqueer, and queer terms glossary." [http://lgbt.wisc.edu/documents/Trans_and_queer_glossary.pdf]</ref>


[[Category:Concepts]]
==Related articles==
 
*[[Sexism]]
*[[Intersex]]
*[[Assigned gender at birth]]
*[[Gender identity]]
 
==References==
 
<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex</ref>
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[[Category:Concepts]] [[Category:Sex]]
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