Which of the following situations provides an example of how the social categories of gender influence the biology of sex?
A) parents who refuse to let their three-year-old son paint his fingernails
B) how people react differently to two women who hold hands in public versus two men who hold hands in public
C) the decision to perform sex reassignment surgery on a male infant born with a micropenis (e.g.,a phallus measuring less than 2 centimeters in length)and raise the baby as a female
D) how a one-sex model of human bodies dominated thinking among ancient Greeks,but a two-sex model dominates current Western biological thought

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The decision to perform sex reassignment surgery on a male infant born with a micropenis and raise the baby as a female is an example of how the social category of gender can influence the biology of sex. The baby's biological sex (male) was changed to match the social category of gender (female) that he was being raised as.

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