How We Treat Inter-sexed Babies: Part 1
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By Bianca I. Laureano,
LatinoSexuality.comJuly 8, 2010 - 7:00am
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/node/13763Recently there has been a burst of discussion regarding unethical and questionable research conducted in the United States on babies whose assigned sex at birth was female but who were born with enlarged clitorises. Many of these stories shared outrage over the practice of shortening the babies clitorises, and most especially about the ethics surrounding the "follow-up" examination conducted by Dr. Dix P. Poppas.
When I first heard about the article Bad Vibrations written by Drs. Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder it came to me from a good friend who had introduced me to several activists working in Africa around female genital mutilation and ritual cutting practices. As I read the article I had a few problems with the responses and writing about Dr. Dix P. Poppas who was shortening (i.e. cutting) the clitorises and following up with the young children as they aged.
