Medical intervention attempts to make intersex
individuals’ bodies conform to ideals of male or
female. Current medical protocols are based on the
ideas that infant genital surgery will “minimise family
concern and distress” and “mitigate the risks of
stigmatisation and gender-identity confusion”. Surgical
interventions intrinsically focus on appearance, and
not sensation or sexual function.
Childhood cosmetic genital surgeries are also
problematic as children cannot consent to them.
Adolescents, and even adults, have also reported
feeling pressured by doctors and family to conform
to societal norms. Some doctors still believe that
disclosure of a person’s intersex status would be too
alarming.
Very many intersex people suffer the physical and
emotional effects of surgery, and related shame
and secrecy. At a fundamental level, homophobia,
intolerance and ancient superstitions underpin
contemporary mistreatment of intersex people.
Medical intervention attempts to make intersex
individuals’ bodies conform to ideals of male or
female. Current medical protocols are based on the
ideas that infant genital surgery will “minimise family
concern and distress” and “mitigate the risks of
stigmatisation and gender-identity confusion”. Surgical
interventions intrinsically focus on appearance, and
not sensation or sexual function.
Childhood cosmetic genital surgeries are also
problematic as children cannot consent to them.
Adolescents, and even adults, have also reported
feeling pressured by doctors and family to conform
to societal norms. Some doctors still believe that
disclosure of a person’s intersex status would be too
alarming.
Very many intersex people suffer the physical and
emotional effects of surgery, and related shame
and secrecy. At a fundamental level, homophobia,
intolerance and ancient superstitions underpin
contemporary mistreatment of intersex people.
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