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Submitted by Rachel Greenham on Wed, 2011/06/29 - 1:49am
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News story... Now with added linkies Sorry 'bout that guys gals and others. I did't pay attention to the preview before. Link isn't to the same article as the one posted below, but obviously same story. (Also it seems the hindustantimes article is more informative anyway.) »
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Maybe it's just me,
but that link doesn't appear to work.
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huh
fixed in original post, but the Hindustan Times link posted below before me is more informative anyway.
A link to the India story
Here it is.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
Just read the panel
"Gender bender" which is so wrong in so many ways I could weep. "Male internal organs"? "Hormonal treatment to change female behaviour to male"? "...will be infertile but not impotent"?
Utter and complete rubbish. John Money's legacy lives on in even greater scale and stupidity.
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Maybe the skills of these surgeons should simply be turned toward something good? = ) There are plenty of FtMs who WANT such surgery, after all.
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Forced sex change operations in India
So sickening!
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Turning Little girls into boys?
Hi Rachel,
I completely agree than this procedure is wrong. It was shown several years ago by a case here in Manitoba that self-perception of gender is inate. A boy, one of a set of identical twins, was accidentilly castrated during a circumcision. (Yeah - I know, how the hell a doctor can "Accidentally" castrate someone while trying to cut off the foreskin? It is beyond my comprehension.) Some medico talked the parents into raising the child as a girl. At age of majority the "girl" found out about "her" past and reversed the whole thing because "she" had never felt right. I believe he eventually committed suicide.
I also totally disagree with at least one of the article's justifications for being against this procedure. "The ratio of males to females will be upset." India has the second highest population in the world, several hundred or even several thousand sex-changes wouldn't do diddly-squat to the ratio.
"If the child has internal organs that are male..." So if there is a brain present the child is OBVIOUSLY male?
with love,
Hope
with love,
Hope
Thanks for the details
Hi Cyclist,
I had disremembered the details of the case. I do recall now my father, who was administrator of a hospital during the years of the original accident, explained that the procedure used required the doctor to stretch the foreskin out at which point the device would with an electric arc cut through the narrowest part of tissue that was detected. Supposedly the doctor stretched out the entirety of the boy's male organs and the device was activated at just the wrong time. I remember thinking how convenient that accident would have been for me. But it didn't happen to me because my parents didn't have me circumcized.
Oh well, as it turns out I likely would never have lived through a circumcision anyway. I have a clotting defect that precludes any surgery that isn't nessesary for critical life-or-death reasons.
with love,
Hope
with love,
Hope
This follows on
from the blog I did a few weeks ago about aborting female foetuses and is equally sick.
People the whole world over need to realise that women and children are not possessions or chattels, they are individual human beings, as we all are, who deserve to be allowed to reach their potentials as such. All of us are equal as humans not objects.
Angharad
Angharad
Sadly
This whole article points to the arrogance of the medical profession in adopting totaaly immoral cavalier attitudes to newborn children and parent's wishes.
By and large, doctors get it wrong most of the time when it comes to gender and sexuality.
Tell me about it.
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