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Sex assignment (sometimes *incorrectly* known as gender assignment) is the determination of an infant's sex at birth.
Sex and gender are two different concepts; it is impossible to assign gender at birth since infants do not yet possess gender identity or expression. Suggest removing the text in parentheses.
It's assigned gender, not representative of the actual gender identity. i.e, the gender assignment is unrelated to the actual gender identity. Also remember to sign your posts on talk page with 4 tildes. Germany FranceUK Australia Russia Latvia ( talk) 02:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
That’s my understanding. Sex “assignment” sounds wrong. Thanks! 82.36.70.45 ( talk) 02:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
health-related content in the general news media should not normally be used to source biomedical content in Wikipedia articles.Within the medical literature, as evidenced by the sources in the article and the many discussions that have occurred on the talk page about this term over at least the last ten years (see the talk page archives for this), that term is sex assignment. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 18:45, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be an avoidance of clarifying what is actually being described since 'assigning' describes the act of a person making a choice or decision which subsequently describes a state, whilst 'discerning' describes a person recognizing a state that already exists. Yet one term is used in the explanation of the other, leaving a muddle. If nothing clearer can be formulated the whole matter leaves the subject of the article in a somewhat fragile state that does not bear scrutiny. The consequence is that the article conveys the impression that no one knows exactly whether sex is something that exists, a priori, or something that only comes into being as a result of a person's stating it.
Special contributions/2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88|2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88]] ( talk) 16:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
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Sex assignment (sometimes *incorrectly* known as gender assignment) is the determination of an infant's sex at birth.
Sex and gender are two different concepts; it is impossible to assign gender at birth since infants do not yet possess gender identity or expression. Suggest removing the text in parentheses.
It's assigned gender, not representative of the actual gender identity. i.e, the gender assignment is unrelated to the actual gender identity. Also remember to sign your posts on talk page with 4 tildes. Germany FranceUK Australia Russia Latvia ( talk) 02:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
That’s my understanding. Sex “assignment” sounds wrong. Thanks! 82.36.70.45 ( talk) 02:23, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
health-related content in the general news media should not normally be used to source biomedical content in Wikipedia articles.Within the medical literature, as evidenced by the sources in the article and the many discussions that have occurred on the talk page about this term over at least the last ten years (see the talk page archives for this), that term is sex assignment. Sideswipe9th ( talk) 18:45, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
There seems to be an avoidance of clarifying what is actually being described since 'assigning' describes the act of a person making a choice or decision which subsequently describes a state, whilst 'discerning' describes a person recognizing a state that already exists. Yet one term is used in the explanation of the other, leaving a muddle. If nothing clearer can be formulated the whole matter leaves the subject of the article in a somewhat fragile state that does not bear scrutiny. The consequence is that the article conveys the impression that no one knows exactly whether sex is something that exists, a priori, or something that only comes into being as a result of a person's stating it.
Special contributions/2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88|2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88]] ( talk) 16:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)