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	[[Assigned gender at birth]] is what people usually really mean when they speak of a person's [[sex]]. This is because a person's sex is much more difficult to determine than most people believe. When a person is born, a doctor assigns a gender by only looking for one thing: the presence or absence of what they consider to be a penis. That person's assigned gender, and their original [[Legal gender\|legal gender/sex]], is based on that quick look. As they grow up, the doctor's guess can turn out to be wrong, either because the person had an undiagnosed [[Intersex\|intersex]] condition, or they are [[Transgender\|transgender]] and don't identify with their assigned gender.		[[Assigned gender at birth]] is what people usually really mean when they speak of a person's [[sex]]. This is because a person's sex is much more difficult to determine than most people believe. When a person is born, a doctor assigns a gender by only looking for one thing: the presence or absence of what they consider to be a penis. That person's assigned gender, and their original [[Legal gender\|legal gender/sex]], is based on that quick look. As they grow up, the doctor's guess can turn out to be wrong, either because the person had an undiagnosed [[Intersex\|intersex]] condition, or they are [[Transgender\|transgender]] and don't identify with their assigned gender.