Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Why must my intersex body become a thing of the past?

Cosmetic gender-assigning operations on children with ambiguous genitalia can have devastating long-term implications. As genetic screening of embryos increases, we can expect variations like 5-alpha-reductase deficiency to disappear from the genepool. Instead of focusing on intersex bodies as objects of repulsion or titillation we need ethical debates

from The Independent - Health & Families http://ind.pn/1L5UmBl
via Health and Families

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