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Title: NHS 'a world pioneer' in treating intersex babies
Post by: Flan on November 19, 2009, 11:03:59 PM
NHS 'a world pioneer' in treating intersex babies
(note: article links to another article http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6922193.ece (http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6922193.ece))
By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk
November 19, 2009

QuoteBritish doctors are becoming "world pioneers" in treating children and adults who are born with ambiguous genitals, it has been reported.

According to The Times, the NHS is the first health service in the world to begin treating intersex babies on the assumption that they should not automatically be operated on.