Intersex Advocates Work Against Infant Surgery

[Shana A]

Intersex Advocates Work Against Infant Surgery

Anna North

http://jezebel.com/#!5782950/intersex-advocates-work-against-infant-surgery

Children born with ambiguous genitals often undergo surgery early in life to make them look more male or female. But some intersex advocates say doctors should wait until patients are old enough to make the decision for themselves.

ABC profiles Jim Bruce, who had ambiguous genitals at birth. Doctors decided he couldn't have a "satisfactory life" as a man, so they removed his penis and testes and started him on female hormones. But, he says, "I knew that I wasn't a girl." And when he saw his medical records at 19, he realized the truth: "I was sterilized at birth — and no one ever told me." Now 34, Bruce has transitioned back to male, and works with Advocates for Informed Choice, a group whose motto is, "promoting the civil rights of children born with variations of sex anatomy."

[spacial]

These operations, on babies are among the most disgusting things that modern medicine is doing. It is beyond belief that, based upon the opinions of some doctor, heathy tissue is removed from these babies, frequently making them sterile, in the belief that they can have anything like a normal or satisfactory life.

The precident is set however, with the equally disgusting and unnecessary procedure of circumcision carried out on millions of baby boys and occasionally baby girls. They have the authority to sexually murtilate babies. Mutilation of babies wit intersex conditions is only one step further.

[Transfinite]

It's disgusting how doctors and parents can get away with doing this to babies just to make them fit into their conveniently-marked little boxes. You'd think by the year 2011 this would have been outlawed.

[LordKAT]

It's disgusting how doctors and parents can get away with doing this to babies just to make them fit into their conveniently-marked little boxes. You'd think by the year 2011 this would have been outlawed.

Parents can get away with it same as they get away with piercings on a baby or tattooing a baby. I don't think any of this is right. Doctors usually work with parents agreement. Doctors are also quite good at convincing ignorant parents of their being right.