A person's physical sex determines how that person will be treated for the rest of their life, but the vast majority of people find themselves excluded because they do not I'm really a boy but not a real girl either. What would happen if when a child was born it was not clear what his physical gender was because his reproductive organs indicated a male, but also a female? Or even vice versa. According to the book Whipping Girl by Julia Serano, these children are known as "Intersex," which is a term used to describe individuals who are "born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit typical definitions of male or female" ( 25). . As an analogy, think of gender as a color spectrum, where one color is "feminine" and another is "masculine." “Intersex” then appeared in every shade of color in between. In the past, this condition (also known as hermaphroditism) was a condition of secrecy, and it was common for parents to choose the sex of their baby for them and ask doctors to remove the ovaries. from a baby who may become a boy, or remove the penis from a baby who showed more signs of being a girl. There are several issues that can cause a child to be intersex. Some could be an extra X or Y chromosome or a genetic mutation. The problem is that people don't always grow up in the gender they're assigned, whether they're intersex or not. Despite the gender categories that society has perpetuated, intersex children should be given the opportunity to choose which gender they identify with after puberty, for their well-being, emotionally and physically. Intersex surgery for children is risky in the long term. In a journal written by Haze Glenn Beh and Milton Diamond Ph.D., they analyzed how doctors have long conveyed a sense of medical…therapy. Intersex children should be given the opportunity to choose what gender they choose to identify with and become after going through puberty. The ability to choose one's gender after puberty will give the intersex person time to be well informed and prepare for their future. As a reminder, gender reassignment surgery is a serious decision that should not be taken lightly or hastily because there have been cases where people have been known to regret their decisions. The time between birth and puberty will give them enough time to properly learn who they are and what gender they want to be, without any mystery in their medical history, and a sense of self-validation that they are in control of their body and of one's life. given the chance to be what they were born to be, even if it all started out a little confusing at first.