genitalia

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“Powdered stone worked. So did lizard’s blood and crocodile dung, and pig’s teeth and dolphin’s genitalia and frog’s sperm,” as psychologist Irving Kirsch later explained it.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

Some are assigned female or male at birth depending on their external genitalia.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025

“Ahead of Stormy Daniels’s testimony today in former President Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, one of the prosecutors told Judge Juan Merchan that Daniels will not describe Trump’s genitalia because it would violate the gag order.”

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

So, the physical sex traits that we're born with from hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia, all of those things are also not always binary.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2023

One out of every two thousand babies is born with ambiguous genitalia.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides