While browsing a site on the treatment of transgender and intersex patients, I noted the following assertion:
"Newborns with intersex deformities must early on be assigned to one sex or the other."
WHY?
This is surely the biggest error medical caregivers can make.
Many such assumptions have been made in the past, resulting in the unfortunate situation where the wrong gender is chosen and the individual in later life is left truly stuck in the wrong gender, even seeking reassignment. Such cases have been documented in the past. Truly such a tragedy is indeed avoidable, had the victim of such medical arrogance had the opportunity to assert his/her own gender identity from the beginning. I say medical arrogance because these people claim to know what is best - and yet they simply work on outward evidence - and by now it is plainly obvious even to laymen that external genetalia do not a man or woman make.
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This is a service of the Organisation Intersex International
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