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Once a newborn has been assigned a sex, a host of assumptions immediately come into play. Babies with “male” on their birth certificates are likely to be flooded with blue items, while female babies can expect to receive pink items.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

anomaly: something that is different fromwhat is expected: for example, in a medical context the word does not mean that something is bad, only that it is not typical binary: relating to two things, as in either X or Y chromosome: a structure found in the nuclei of cells; a typical human has 23 pairs of chromosomes inherent: built-in translocation: describes the movement of something from one place to another

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