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user-inactivated · 3214 days ago · link · · parent · post: Born In Between: When A Newborn’s Sex Is In Question, Why Do Doctors Get To Decide
Is it really? That certainly sounds pretty unethical to me.“Forcing children to be raised with ambiguous genitalia is really tough — that’s almost unethical.”
The complaint argues that the possible consequences of surgery — loss of sexual function, scarring, loss of male fertility, gender misassignment, and a potential lifetime of psychological distress — were minimized without considering the alternative of doing nothing at all.