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Doctors begin conducting biopsies on the sex glands of intersex people to "determine" their sex.

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Even when biopsies are conducted, some sex gland tissue remains difficult to identify microscopically. Doctors continue to attempt to fit intersex people into binary categories of biological sex that don't hold up in reality.