Questions for ‘Gender: When the body and brain disagree’
![At birth, doctors (and parents) assign a child’s gender, based on what the baby's body parts look like. But sometimes those body parts may not signal one’s biological sex clearly.](https://www.snexplores.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/860-header-explainer-mvf-humans-iStock_000014231396_Large_0.jpg)
At birth, doctors (and parents) assign a child’s gender, based on what the baby's body parts look like. But sometimes those body parts may not match up with what the brain "knows" to be that child's true gender.
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