Many, probably most, of us don’t give a second thought about how often we are asked to declare whether we are male or female. To travel abroad, to open a bank account, to access healthcare, apply for a job, even just to buy stuff online.
At the same time, science tells us that our biology is complex. That our hormones, chromosomes, genitals and mind do not necessarily combine to make us exclusively male or female. This crude dualism is overwhelmingly a social and cultural construct – with roots in patriarchy and capitalism – that does not capture the complexity of real lives.
