The sex that a person has or is assigned to at birth (chiefly used in contexts where it is contrasted with a person’s gender identity)
students are permitted to use whichever washroom fits with their stated gender preference rather than their birth sex
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Students are permitted to use whichever washroom fits with their stated gender preference rather than their birth sex.
According to the vice president of enrollment and admissions, almost five percent of the school's 1,000 undergraduate students identifies as something other than their assigned birth sex.
Some people who have gender-transitioned to the opposite of their birth sex don't see themselves as falling under the transgender umbrella at all: they are simply females or males within the gender binary.
Among the 43 transgender respondents we interviewed, most said they first felt their gender was different from their birth sex before puberty.
If the gender statistics were to be 100 per cent reliable they would also need to take into account those people who are listed by birth sex as one gender - but actually live as another.
Definition of birth sex in US English:
birth sex
noun
The sex that a person has or is assigned to at birth (chiefly used in contexts where it is contrasted with a person’s gender identity)
students are permitted to use whichever washroom fits with their stated gender preference rather than their birth sex
Example sentencesExamples
If the gender statistics were to be 100 per cent reliable they would also need to take into account those people who are listed by birth sex as one gender - but actually live as another.
Students are permitted to use whichever washroom fits with their stated gender preference rather than their birth sex.
According to the vice president of enrollment and admissions, almost five percent of the school's 1,000 undergraduate students identifies as something other than their assigned birth sex.
Some people who have gender-transitioned to the opposite of their birth sex don't see themselves as falling under the transgender umbrella at all: they are simply females or males within the gender binary.
Among the 43 transgender respondents we interviewed, most said they first felt their gender was different from their birth sex before puberty.