Pressure Mounts To Curtail Intersex Surgery

[Guest Kenna Dixon]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pressure-mounts-curtail-surgery-intersex-children-041336874.html

[Timber Wolf]

I'm glad that awareness seems to be picking up. Such surgeries seem like flipping a coin and hoping it comes up right, when you consider that gender isn't even determined down there.

 

Lots of love,

Timber Wolf?

[VickySGV]

I have IS friends, and seem to have only the ones who are unhappy with what happened to them as children.  Needless to say they are strong advocates for not doing surgery until the child themselves can take part in the decision and has had time to find which of three directions to go.  One direction they strongly advocate is the direction of staying IS, and being accepted as they are.  I for one am glad they want that option. 

[Birdie]

On 7/25/2017 at 11:13 AM, VickySGV said:

I have IS friends, and seem to have only the ones who are unhappy with what happened to them as children.  Needless to say they are strong advocates for not doing surgery until the child themselves can take part in the decision and has had time to find which of three directions to go.  One direction they strongly advocate is the direction of staying IS, and being accepted as they are.  I for one am glad they want that option. 

Offering a different perspective, I was left just the way I was born and obviously not complete in the men's department. Raised as a boy and grew up looking more like a girl including breasts and curves. 

I have suffered that decision now for almost 60 years and a simple surgery at birth could have fixed it. 

Even offering further testing and surgery starting in my teens would have been appreciated, I was just left hiding myself in bathroom stalls my entire life. Living as a very feminine looking male, but feeling like a woman. 

Even now it took about a year of complaining to my doctor before he would even investigate it further. I only recently confirmed I have a uterus and fallopian tubes. 

[VickySGV]

@Birdie The 50's and 60's were still under the tyranny of the Nurture is superior to Nature crowd of physicians, and much of the current information we have, as well as diagnostic tools was incomplete on the complexities of Intersex development of children.  Strides are being made and they affect all T & I people.  I could not be made into "my fathers son".  I have three genetic anomalies that affected my body in much more subtle ways, we know now because of human genome mapping.