Original sentence: Sex assignment, then, is merely an empirical observation with the purpose of establishing the infant's sex in legal and medical records, among other things.The term "assign" is used to mean that where the child is born, based on the appearance of genitalia, that the child is said to be either a boy or a girl (however, problems can arise where the genitalia does not give a clear picture for someone to say whether that child is either a boy or a girl)
Edited sentence: From this perspective, sex assignment is merely an empirical observation with the purpose of establishing the infant's sex in legal and medical records, among other things.In the medical and scientific communities, it is commonly accepted that one is born into either sex (except for intersex individuals) by virtue of genetics and anatomy.The term "assign" is somewhat misleading in this case, in that it does not necessarily presume that the person performing the sex assignment is truly "assigning" a sex to a baby who previously had none