In Keeping with the Johns Hopkins Model, the Birth of an Intersex

Multiple Choice

In keeping with the Johns Hopkins model, the birth of an intersex infant today is deemed a "psychosocial emergency" that propels a multidisciplinary team of intersex specialists into action. Significantly, they are surgeons and endocrinologists rather than psychologists, bioethicists, representatives from inter- sex peer support organizations, or parents of intersex children. The team examines the infant and chooses either male or female as a "_______," then informs the parents that this is the child's "_______." Medical technology, including surgery and hormones, is then used to make the child's body conform as closely as possible to that sex.

A) sex of assignment; true sex
B) biology; gender
C) assigned sex; affirmed gender
D) affirmed gender; assigned sex