LogFAQs > #964950732

Irreversible surgery being performed on ignorant and non-consenting minors: intersex people have been going through corrective surgery for years. Whichever set of genitals look the most developed tend to get preferred, and the other set of genitals is surgically altered in the hopes of granting the child a normal life.

Unfortunately, both male and female symptoms of puberty tend to manifest in intersex people. This also causes problems as internal and external sex organs begin to change, and the effects of that corrective surgery tend to lead to permanent health problems as intersex people grow older.

A recent study has shown that intersex people who weren't operated on as babies tend to be a lot healthier, and there's a call in the intersex community to raise awareness of this and to end the practice of childhood genital surgery. Your empathy for children receiving inoperable surgery on their genitals and being left with regret and health problems for the rest of their lives would be much better aimed at the group of people who overwhelmingly suffer that fate - intersex people.