The phrase assigned X at birth is becoming normalized as modern gender theory pushes against the traditional ways of thinking and speaking about gender. This phrase has no place in respectable dialogue about sex and gender because its logic – a flawed version of flawed feminism – distorts how human beings ordinarily attend to the sexed body at birth. I will briefly be examining how the logic behind this phrase obscures a teleological view of the body and conclude that no one is actually assigned a sex a birth because each person is recognized as male or female by the ordinary observation of their human nature and its teleological boundaries.

This is an excerpt from an essay published previously on our website.