Health and Human Services takes stand against nonconsensual intersex surgeries
Health and Human Services takes stand against nonconsensual intersex surgeries
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
This is kind of a no brainer. Just like outlawing circumcision.
Woah woah woah, bodily autonomy in this day and age? /S
Wait what, I'd kind of assune that all surgeries have to be consensual?
I'm assuming this refers to surgery on infants, in which case it's the parents who consent, not the child.
It’s exactly that, literally just read to the second paragraph of the article
“There is “growing evidence that surgical interventions on intersex infants can cause lasting harm, including stigma and medical mistrust,” says the report, titled ‘Advancing Health Equity for Intersex Individuals.’”
Link aggregation and the human tendency to read headlines and make assumptions about what the content could possibly be, when it’s literally right there, is mind boggling. This didn’t have a paywall or even an adblocker nag
That, but also doctors tend to push parents very hard for surgical interventions when they have an intersex child. Which kind of makes the moral panic about gender affirming care for children look as hypocritical as it is. They love doing gender-related surgery on kids when it reinforces the notion of a gender binary, even on kids who haven't even developed a sense of self yet, but not so much when it flies in the face of that preconceived notion.
I just read the title and like... how the pizza does anyone get into a situation like that? But.. ye, that should be illegal.
Its a suprise to me that there were even people doing that.
It's extremely common on intersex infants. Gotta remember that most people barely know intersex people exist. And the doctors will tell the parents there's "something wrong", the parents want to have a "normal kid" and are told the kid won't know, and here we are.
Or if its anything like circumcision, they just do it without saying because its "the default".