[quote]who makes these decisions? Doctors. And how are they determined? By certain visual [i]biolgical[/i] criteria. [/quote] Morphology. Chromosome testing or further inquiry simply isnt required in most cases because it is apparent. [quote] And they can't exactly ask the baby at that point what they think they are.[/quote] So, that's not biological gender of which their opinion is irrelevant. It may well be critical to their wishes, feelings, sense of identity because those are different things. [quote] They can be assigned inter(word that rhymes with hex). [/quote] Already explained this. Interseggs isnt Trans-gender identity and has nothing to do with it. It is an umbrella category of rare disorders. [quote] The doctors will try and make them fit the outdated "binary". [/quote] This is absolute pernicious nonsense. In cases of SOME interseggs babies the doctors and specialists will tirelessly work with often extremely worried parents and carefully consider compassionate options. There is nothing "outdated" about the biological reality and there is nothing "outdated" about biological, chromosomal gender being binary and unchangeable. In many other interseggs conditions it goes past completely unnoticeable and undiagnosed. Again, it has nothing to do with Trans gender identity. [quote] Humans, other humans not the person in question themselves, have been determining people's biological gender for time immemorial. They literally do it when they announce that your child is a girl or a boy when they are born.[/quote] This makes no sense either. Biological gender is determined by chromosomes and that is reflected in morphology without disorders. Their opinion on the matter has [i]no bearing[/i], never has, never will, on their BIOLOGICAL gender. Their opinion on their identity has [i]every[/i] bearing on their non-exclusively biological gender identity. Different things.