Your sex assigned at birth is the biological and physical characteristics used to define people as male or female. These include:
- X and Y chromosomes
- whether you have external or internal sex organs (penis or vagina)
- types and levels of hormones
- hair growth
- breast development
- what is recorded on your birth certificate
Some people are born intersex and have characteristics that don’t fit typical definitions of male and female.
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