Sometimes I worry that I’m assimilating too much, caving in to the man, as it were. So, I took heart at my outraged reaction to the article in the NYT on sex assignment surgery for new borns. Some fraction of a percent of kids are born intersex. But rather than risk them feeling a little weird, or letting them figure themselves out, or, you know, fucking being honest with them as adults, the standard plan is to surgerize their genitalia to ‘make it look right’ and forget that there was ever anything unusual about this. It used to be things like removing their phalus (by which I mean an ambiguous clitoris\/penis). This totally screws up their sex life later. Nowadays, they supposedly have less drastic interventions, though they still involve slicing and dicing. And the tiny amount of scientific evidence that can be gathered on the subject suggests that maybe the kids who don’t get cut grow up happier. But the new improved standard does discourage them from rushing to surgery. Doesn’t say “don’t do it” just sit down and think first.<\/p>\n
Okay, now here’s the kicker. Most parents seem to think carving their kids privates into a more socially accepted shape is the best solution to this ‘disastrous’ outcome. I have no words for how much this idea pisses me off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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