I’m a Pediatrician. Here’s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl.1

• Politics
• December 11, 2017

“Congratulations, it’s a boy!” Or, “Congratulations, it’s a girl!” As a pediatrician for nearly 20 years, that’s how many of my patient relationships began. Our bodies declare our sex. Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary.