Intersex Children: What Often Happens When They Do Genital Surgery On Children
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Mar 17, 2011 at 17:00:00 PM EDT
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What happens if they do genital surgery on intersex children and they get the gender identity of the child wrong? From ABC News' Intersex Babies: Boy or Girl and Who Decides?; Surgery on Ambiguous Genitals Is Irreversible and Doctors Can Get a Child's Sex Wrong:
Jim Bruce was born with XY male chromosomes but ambiguous genitals. Doctors couldn't be sure if he had a large clitoris or a small penis and were convinced he could never live a "satisfactory life" as a man.