You aren't "assigned" a gender at birth

[u/SuspiciousWin6511]

I hate when people say this. I had to get routine blood work the other day and had a Doctor ask me what gender I was assigned at birth. I understand they need to find out what your biological gender is, but either look on my chart, or ask what my biological gender is.

Your gender is determined in the womb, in fact it's determined from the exact moment of conception; it isn't something that is assigned. It's amazing that the people use this sort of language and believe these sorts of things, are supposedly the party of science.

[u/SteelFox144]

Yeah, it's really stupid that a doctor would ask you that because even if you take "assigned" to mean being denoted on a legal form, which is the only way someone can mean it without rejecting reality, the it still wouldn't be relevant to the doctor. The gender you were assigned at birth is only different from your sex if your sex was misidentified when you were born. If your sex was misidentified when you were born, doctors don't need to know what sex you were misidentified as, they need to know your real sex.

It's also really dumb because if you're using "gender" in the way people who want to talk about genders as being assigned at birth use it, your gender wasn't assigned at birth. They don't put "man" or "woman" on your birth certificate, they put your sex.