Sex - Factors in Determining a Person's Sex

7. Sexual Self-identification

Typical: A child with a female body raised as a girl will usually learn to consider herself female. A child with a male body raised as a boy will usually consider himself male. Atypical: There are cases of children with female bodies raised as girls who nevertheless consider themselves male, and this can also happen vice versa, i.e. children with male bodies raised as boys may nevertheless consider themselves female.