binary this or that idea. but for some, as a journey. it s tonight s inside story . welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. the idea that a person s gerpd is fixed ot birth gender is fixed at birth defined on the birth certificate is undergoing investigation. for some there s a life-time struggle between what your body says you are, and who you are. the whole idea of gender doesn t fit the true sense of themselves, but nature has, from the day of birth, made things ambivalent. for a long time intersex infants, where genders ambiguous at birth were given a gender by parents, told to choose male or female. al jazeera s ashar quraishi profiled an adult who felt the approach could force parents to make the wrong choice. reporter: today this person does not identify as he or she, preferring to be called they. i thought i was a girl. people called me she, i was jen fer. that s my name. reporter: until the age of 18 she identified as time ail. living as a girl believing
it s tonight s inside story . welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. the idea that a person s gerpd is fixed ot birth gender is fixed at birth, defined on the birth certificate is undergoing investigation. for some, there s a life-time struggle between what your body says you are, and who you are. the whole idea of gender doesn t fit the true sense of themselves, but nature has, from the day of birth, made things ambivalent. for a long time intersex infants, where genders ambiguous at birth were given a gender by parents, told to choose male or female. al jazeera s ashar quraishi profiled an adult who felt the approach could force parents to make the wrong choice. reporter: today this person does not identify as he or she, preferring to be called they. i thought i was a girl. people called me she, i was jen fer. that s my name. reporter: until the age of 18 she identified as time ail. living as a girl, believing she was one. but she never had ovaries, and, in fac
binary this or that idea. but for some, as a journey. it s tonight s inside story . welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. the idea that a person s gerpd is fixed ot birth gender is fixed at birth, defined on the birth certificate is undergoing investigation. for some, there s a life-time struggle between what your body says you are, and who you are. the whole idea of gender doesn t fit the true sense of themselves, but nature has, from the day of birth, made things ambivalent. for a long time intersex infants, where genders ambiguous at birth were given a gender by parents, told to choose male or female. al jazeera s ashar quraishi profiled an adult who felt the approach could force parents to make the wrong choice. reporter: today this person does not identify as he or she, preferring to be called they. i thought i was a girl. people called me she, i was jen fer. that s my name. reporter: until the age of 18 she identified as time ail. living as a girl, believi
living as a girl, believing she was one. but she never had ovaries, and, in fact, genetically has xy chromosomes, typical in boys. it s known as intersex. it is an individual born with not just uniform male or female parts, but can have combinations of both. doctors and parents decide what sex a child could be, and the genitalia could be modified. i wish with all my being and heart that they would have left me like how i was born. reporter: choosing surgery at an early stage is controversial. activists and bioethicists say they should be consulted once themselves. we are bad at predicting how the patient will identify sexually, will they identify in a male role or a female role, and that kind of choice, it seems, we have learnt is best herself. reporter: it s one reason a programme at a hospital in chicago began what it says was a wholistic approach to dsd treatment. the gender and sex development programme includes consultation with neuroologieses, surgeons and psy
welcome to inside story . i m ray suarez. the idea that a person s gerpd is fixed ot birth gender is fixed at birth, defined on the birth certificate is undergoing investigation. for some, there s a life-time struggle between what your body says you are, and who you are. the whole idea of gender doesn t fit the true sense of themselves, but nature has, from the day of birth, made things ambivalent. for a long time intersex infants, where genders ambiguous at birth were given a gender by parents, told to choose male or female. al jazeera s ashar quraishi profiled an adult who felt the approach could force parents to make the wrong choice. reporter: today this person does not identify as he or she, preferring to be called they. i thought i was a girl. people called me she, i was jen fer. that s my name. reporter: until the age of 18 she identified as time ail. living as a girl, believing she was one. but she never had ovaries, and, in fact, genetically has xy chromosom