The Veritas Project

therepublitarian:

only-conservative-here:

By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care. …

Instead of waiting for the correct time for the surgery (as is the medically sound decision for hermaphroditic/intersex patients), the state social workers and doctors went ahead and did it. This is an outrage, and the fact that the state is involved is rather unsettling to me. Thoughts?

This is a big issue in the LGBT community. Many hermaphroditic/intersex patients get surgery that assigns a sex either by parental choice or by doctor recommendation and it is often female since that is an easier surgery. This causes problems later in life if the person identifies as a gender that differs from the assigned sex. There are some people that have opted out of the surgery completely and have lived normal lives. I know LGBT/Women’s studies is often mocked (for good reason), but there is a lot of interesting literature on this subject in that field.