Study recommends that parents, physicians share decisions in sex development dis

[Shana A]

Study recommends that parents, physicians share decisions in sex development disorder surgery
23/07/2010 03:59:00

http://www.healthcanal.com/surgery-rehabilitation/9595-Study-recommends-that-parents-physicians-share-decisions-sex-development-disorder-surgery.html

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging and controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in sexual development and are being considered for elective corrective surgery, a new research paper suggests.

The paper does not address instances in which infants are born with conditions that pose an imminent threat to their health — such as when children are born without a urinary opening. Instead, the paper is intended to propose guidelines for use when surgery is being considered to make a child's appearance more typical of their sex in order to facilitate their gender-identity development.

[lilacwoman]

this sounds like the family and doctors will get together and say 'did you want a girl or boy baby?'   and it flies in the face of all modern thought on gender and sex being separate and distinct.
In the Uk the theory is that these babies will be left to develop to see what they really are but then that might take many years and many parents have set their hearts on a child that is defininetly male or female.

[Keroppi]

In the Uk the theory is that these babies will be left to develop to see what they really are but then that might take many years and many parents have set their hearts on a child that is defininetly male or female.

That's very much social as well. How many parents want to have a new baby and when asked "is it a boy or a girl" as they most definitely would get asked, and having to answered "we don't know"?

[Samantha_Peterson]

That's very much social as well. How many parents want to have a new baby and when asked "is it a boy or a girl" as they most definitely would get asked, and having to answered "we don't know"?

Yeah, that would be embarassing...

[LordKAT]

Why not say  that you haven't asked yet?