intersex children left intact!

[rite_of_inversion]

I am really happy to stumble across this article-yes, an old one, but I don't see this come up often.

I think what gets done to intersex babies is a human-rights' violation that happens right in front of everyone, and nobody bats an eyelash.

Here's a  Chester Brown at BCM, starring as Captain Obvious:

"The hardest thing to consider is what gender the child will feel like," explains geneticist Chester Brown of Baylor College of Medicine. "And really, at such a young age, it's impossible to assess."

http://www.slate.com/id/2102006/

[rejennyrated]

Give the man a lollipop. I think all of us would support this.

I have this radical idealistic vision of a world in which gender and sex divisions and fixed categorizations between children don't start to happen until the age of 11 or 12 and then you also consider the child's expressed view of themselves - which is pretty much how my parents tried to bring me up as long ago as the 1960's.

[Shana A]

Give the man a lollipop. I think all of us would support this.

I have this radical idealistic vision of a world in which gender and sex divisions and fixed categorizations between children don't start to happen until the age of 11 or 12 and then you also consider the child's expressed view of themselves - which is pretty much how my parents tried to bring me up as long ago as the 1960's.

I'd go one step further with this, let it continue lifelong. Why stop at age 11 or 12? 

Z

[Dawn D.]

I'd go one step further with this, let it continue lifelong. Why stop at age 11 or 12? 

Z

Interesting. What if we didn't "assign" anyone to a specified gender at birth? What if we took the label of male and female away from third party application, and left gender determination to the individual involved?

Sounds like a way better system than letting someone you don't even know make that decision for you.


Dawn