The New York City Council's Education Committee is proposing a new, anti-harassment code for New York's Schools that would protect kids against bullying.

This phrase is included in the proposed legislation:

2. “Gender” shall mean actual or perceived sex and shall also include a person’s gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the legal sex assigned to that person at birth.

It's good to know, after all these years, that we're not actually born male or female, but we're "assigned" a "legal sex."