Report: W.H.O. Guidance Claims ‘Sex Not Limited to Male or Female’

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to release radical “gender identity” guidance, in which it claims “sex is not limited to male or female,” the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

The organization is reportedly in the process of changing its 2011 “gender guidance” and is the gathering and feedback stage, “with a final version due to be rolled out sometime next month.” While the actual contents of the W.H.O.’s updated advice is unknown, the organization explained on its website that it would go “beyond non-binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender and sexual diversity or the concepts that gender identity exists on a continuum…”

The W.H.O. is also looking to expand “the concept of intersectionality, which looks at how gender power dynamics interact with other hierarchies of privilege or disadvantage, resulting in inequality and differential health outcomes for different people.”

“Intersecting factors include sex, ethnicity, race, age, class, socioeconomic status, religion, language, geographical location, disability status, migration status, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation and political situation,” the W.H.O. explains

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