The Assigned gender is the sex assigned to a person at birth on the basis of external physical characteristics (usually genitalia).
- Doctors enter this gender on the birth certificate, usually as "male" or "female".
- This categorisation says nothing about the gender or gender identity the person later has or feels.
- It can be more difficult to categorise intersex children, as their physical characteristics do not clearly fit into the categories "male" or "female".
The assigned gender is not the same as the Gender identity (the inner knowledge and feeling of which gender you belong to).
