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Originally posted by stevie667
assinging a sex to an intersexed baby is not genital mutilation by any means.
you don't go in with a knife and start mix and matching ya know, hormone treatments along with plastic surgeries are used to give the child a gender based on usually which organs are most prevelant so that the child can grow up and lead a normal life.
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Actually it is genital mutilation for many, and what's more is that it is incredibly emotionally harmful for many. Rather than explain though, please go
here and read the linked articles as a start and get educated.
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here are all good sites.
A bit from one of the sites:
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"There are inherent risks with surgery," said Sevelius. "Repeated surgery is often necessary."
Not only does the surgery sometimes force a person to adopt a gender role they're eventually not comfortable with, it can also eliminate sensitivity or the ability to achieve sexual satisfaction. It also can require years of childhood surgeries and can give children the impression that there is something wrong with them.
"When an intersex child is born, it's treated as an emergency," Sevelius said. "It's corrected right away."
That is done mainly to help parents create a gender assignment, that is, whether they're going to raise their child as a girl or a boy. But Sevelius argued that gender assignment can be done by chromosomal and hormonal tests, as well as prominent physical indicators, and that any physical corrections, if done, can be done at a much later time.
Both the surgeries and the physical therapy done after corrective surgeries can subject some children to feelings similar to sexual abuse, Koyama said, even though that is not the intent of caregivers and parents. It also teaches children that their sexuality is something hidden, forbidden and wrong.
"It teaches children to combine a loving relationship with physical violation," she said.
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