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1. I'm glad there's a move away from surgery at birth/in childhood

Reply to Surya Gayatri (Original post)

Fri Apr 17, 2015, 11:07 AM

Apr 2015

The reasons it was done were horrible - one frequently given was to make diaper changing easier on the parents - and it really messed up a lot of people's lives. The condition is too complex to be given a snap decision by someone other than the person who lives in that body.

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Intersex surgeries spark move away from drastic treatment [View all] Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 OP

I'm glad there's a move away from surgery at birth/in childhood REP Apr 2015 #1

And, don't forget the 'shame' connected with having what Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #2

I think the mutilation at birth is even worse than being in a sideshow REP Apr 2015 #4

The horror, the horror. You have to think that these were Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #6

Some may have really thought they were helping, but Money was trying to prove a theory REP Apr 2015 #7

Not the first and certainly not the last, sadly. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #8

I'm currently reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, a Pulitzer prize-winning novel. randome Apr 2015 #3

Thanks, will see if I can find it over here in France... Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #5

It's not that great. It's about an intersexed person REP Apr 2015 #9

If the title of the docu. comes to you, give me a heads up, OK? Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #10

It's from the point of view of a hermaphrodite. randome Apr 2015 #11