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- The study analyzes audio recordings from pediatric clinics that address disorders of sex development (intersex), focusing on how gender assignments are made for children with atypical genitalia.
- The discussions around gender assignment depend more on collaborative imaginations between clinicians and parents than on strict biological traits, considering factors like intimacy, fertility, and stigma.
- Clinicians and parents aim to implement socialization and medical interventions to fulfill their gender choices, viewing the child's gender as a pre-existing identity that needs to be 'discovered' and potentially optimized.
Article Abstract
Based on audio recordings of consultations in three U.S. paediatric multidisciplinary Disorders of Sex Development-Intersex clinics, we examine the process of gender assignment of children with "atypical" genitalia. Rather than fully determined by the presence of biological sex traits, the gender assignment discussion hinges on how clinician and parent collaboratively imagine different aspects of what constitutes being a gendered person. They orient towards the potential for sexual intimacy, fertility, gender dysphoria, stigma, and gonadal cancer risk. While these futures remain inherently uncertain, clinicians and parents plan to mobilise gender socialisation and medical interventions to render their choice of gender a self-fulfilling prophecy. Gender destinies capture that the child always had a specific, innate gender awaiting discovery, and presumes a project for medical and social monitoring, intervention, correction, and optimisation.
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