Boy or girl? This is one of the first questions all new parents are asked. In a small percentage of cases, the answer isn鈥檛 straightforward: the child is intersex. In a highly gendered society, how does the law apply to people whose physiology doesn鈥檛 fit the binary categories of male and female?聽
Research among mothers with young children living in multicultural London shows that racism is a reality for children as young as five 鈥 and that many mothers adopt parenting strategies to help their children deal with it.聽