As in a Hermaphrodite? Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t most chose which sex to identify with and resemble the most?
“As in a Hermaphrodite? Not necessarily, because there are a very wide range of intersex conditions beyond hermaphroditism which do not result in a clearly evident differentiation between genders.
“Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t most chose which sex to identify with and resemble the most?”
No. In the past, physicians and surgeons unilaterally decided upon surgery and/or with the permission of a parent to surgically assign a gender to the newborn or sometime not long after birth, whether or not the assigned gender comported to the child’s other physical and mental characteristics. In countless other cases the condition was not something which could be safely changed with surgeries or permission of the parents was not obtained to make such changes to the genitalia. The efforts to force surgical gender assignments has a long record of failures, emotional conflicts, and high rates of suicide to escape the social trauma. Human sexual biology is simply far more varied and considerably more common than a simple dichotomy, and pretending this reality does not exist creates unnecessary conflicts.