Author

Frances Grimstad

Frances Grimstad

Frances Grimstad is assistant professor of gynecology at Harvard University.

COMMENTARY

Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation

By: and - September 5, 2022

Check out your birth certificate and surely you’ll see a designation for sex. When you were born, a doctor or clinician assigned you the “male” or “female” label based on a look at your genitalia. In the U.S., this has been standard practice for more than a century. But sex designation is not as simple […]