intersex

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Intersex
Gender has been a big part of our lives. Gender not only affects our jobs, schools, and passports, but it affects how we interact with people and how people interact with us. Gender affects our identity and expression. Gender is confused with biological sex, but the truth is gender is neither universal nor cultural. Gender is a classification relative to how one composes himself, and the requirement for a certain gender is subject to change over time. In the world that we live in, there are only two genders, a male and a female based on their biological sex; but what about the babies that are born with both genitals and no genital? Are they some kind of alien or just psychologically and medically ill? However, because we live in this society that only consists of binary gender, it’s very easy for people of both genitals or no genital to feel left out and not accepted since the majority of the world’s gender consists of either a penis or a vagina. The fact that we all live in this little box of a male and fema...

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