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Assignment 3 Intersexuality

Even before a child is born, parents want to know if the child is a boy or girl. However, when intersexuality is introduced to parents they find it hard to identify with their baby since the question of is it a boy or girl becomes the most important question to them and the doctors. Parents want their children to fit in and be able to tell people they know that they had either or girl or boy, which forces the baby to be identified as either one, so the baby can fit into the culture that puts people into two genders, male or female. Any other “gender” is generally seen as unaccepted. Since these genders are so set in stone, doctors are pressured to quickly identify the baby’s gender, mostly by looking at if the baby has male or female looking genitals. Usually if the doctors see the baby has a something resembling a developed clitoris they say it is male, or if there are genitals that look similar to female ones then the baby is identified as female. Surgery can be used to make them look either more male or more female and causes no trauma to the baby if done at the right time.
The gender these babies are given determine how their parents will raise them, and, most likely, what their gender will be their whole lives. This is important so they can fit into society and be seen as a male or female instead of telling someone they are intersexual, which will make them seem weird to the majority of society. The surgeries done by doctors are also important so the baby itself won’t get confused later in life about what gender they are and how to handle that. The gender is identified right away, most importantly, so the baby will live a happy life without questioning what gender they are if they do not wish to.