Monday, 27 June 2011
Docs surgically change baby girls to look like boys in India
Zoe Brain at 6/27/2011 11:31:00 PM
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2011/06/docs-surgically-change-baby-girls-to.htmlFrom the Hindustan Times
Girls are being 'converted' into boys in Indore - by the hundreds every year - at ages where they cannot give their consent for this life-changing operation.
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When there is an Intersex condition involving hormonal anomalies in the womb, about 1 in 3 such children would be mis-assigned - defined as "unable to live with their surgically altered body". But as they're Intersex, "defective", "mis-shapen", then that's considered acceptable. Who cares what the result is, as long as society isn't troubled by the existence of someone "in between"?
