That you can’t change your gender identity? Even in this day of age they are still preforming surgery on intersex babies to make them more “socially acceptable”
Dr. Money said gender identity is all nurture and that nature doesn’t play a role in its development, he said that it is the way you raise a child that makes them a boy or a girl. He used David Reimer as a case study to prove his theory. We later learned that Dr. Money had fabricated the research in order to prove his theory and as a result of Dr. Money experiment David Reimer took his own life and it wrecked his family (You can read about it in As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl).
A 2005 article in Science Daily about research intersex babies, Defining Male And Female -- Research Casts Further Doubt On Newborn Sex-Assignment Surgeries, said,
I hope that the couple wins their case on behalf of their son. Maybe that is the only way that hospitals and doctors will stop doing these surgeries.
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Couple files groundbreaking lawsuit over child’s sexual-reassignment surgeryThis is so totally wrong. An article on the WFSA website by Jason Old and Taylor Kearns said…
An intersex child's parents are suing the state for irreparable harm caused by the medically unnecessary surgery
Salon
By Katie Mcdonough
May 15, 2013
A South Carolina couple is suing the state for performing sexual-reassignment surgery on an intersex toddler born with both male and female reproductive organs, calling the procedure “irreversible and medically unnecessary.”
The surgery was performed while the child (now aged eight, and who identifies as male) was in the state’s care. The lawsuit, filed by the his adoptive parents Mark and Pam Crawford in partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center, accuses the Department of Social Services and others of performing a “dangerous and mutilating surgery” to “radically restructure [the child's] reproductive organs in order to make his body appear to be female” without medical justification.
The lawsuit states doctors, acting as agents of Defendant hospitals, performed the surgery for the purpose of "assigning" the child the female gender despite their own conclusion that the toddler "was a true hermaphrodite but there was no compelling reason that she should either be made male or female."This is not new, doctors have been preforming surgeries on babies to “correct a problem” that only exists in the doctors minds since the fifties. One of the most famous cases was Dr. Money did to David Reimer that totally destroyed David’s life.
At birth, the child was identified as a male because of his external genitalia, but shortly after that doctors discovered the baby had "ambiguous genitals" and both male and female internal reproductive structures, according to the lawsuit.
Defendants decided to remove the child's healthy genital tissue and "radically restructure his reproductive organs in order to make his body appear to be female," the lawsuit states.
Dr. Money said gender identity is all nurture and that nature doesn’t play a role in its development, he said that it is the way you raise a child that makes them a boy or a girl. He used David Reimer as a case study to prove his theory. We later learned that Dr. Money had fabricated the research in order to prove his theory and as a result of Dr. Money experiment David Reimer took his own life and it wrecked his family (You can read about it in As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl).
A 2005 article in Science Daily about research intersex babies, Defining Male And Female -- Research Casts Further Doubt On Newborn Sex-Assignment Surgeries, said,
The biology of gender is far more complicated than XX or XY chromosomes and may rely more on the brain's very early development than we ever imagined," researcher Eric Vilain, M.D., reported today at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.And this was back in 2005, but the surgery is still being performed today despite all the evidence showing that it is harmful. They are article goes on to say,
"Surgical sex assignment of newborns with no capacity to consent should never be performed for cosmetic reasons, in my opinion," said Vilain, an associate professor of human genetics who also serves as a chief of medical genetics and director of research in urology and sexual medicine within the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We simply don't know enough yet about gender to be making surgical or legal assumptions."
Another AAAS speaker, William G. Reiner, M.D., agreed. "The most important sex organ is the brain," said Reiner, a psychiatrist and associate professor in the Department of Urology, Oklahoma University Health Science Center. "We have to let these children tell us their gender at the appropriate time."Did you get what Dr. Reiner said, "We have to let these children tell us their gender at the appropriate time." Our brains are what determine our gender identity not what is between our legs or how we are raised.
I hope that the couple wins their case on behalf of their son. Maybe that is the only way that hospitals and doctors will stop doing these surgeries.
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