Sexually Reassigning Intersex Children

[ShyGuyInChicago]

Is it right to alter to genitals of an intersex child? Does this violate the rights of the child? Would this help to make the child feel normal? What if the child's male sex organs are removed and they identify as female and vice versa? Should it be illegal to make such a change and should children make that decision when they are old enough to do so? What would you do if your child was intersex?

If my child was intersex, I would simply let the child decide what sex they want to be. I fell that if parents choose they run the risk of being wrong and it could cause a child lots of pain.

[Zephyr]

In all honesty, I think that when a a child is born intersex, they're gender should be assigned in accordance to which set of sexual organs is the most prominent; Most intersex people don't even appear intersex at birth, they find out later in life most of the time. Somebody can be born a male, and have an unformed uterus inside of his body his whole life without even knowing it.

Now, if somebody has both sexual organs completely formed, I would wait. Raise them in a gender neutral environment and see which gender they associate themselves with at a young age. After that, I would get a gender reassignment done. I wouldn't wait any longer than 5 years, 6 years old at most.

[ShyGuyInChicago]

In all honesty, I think that when a a child is born intersex, they're gender should be assigned in accordance to which set of sexual organs is the most prominent; Most intersex people don't even appear intersex at birth, they find out later in life most of the time. Somebody can be born a male, and have an unformed uterus inside of his body his whole life without even knowing it.

Now, if somebody has both sexual organs completely formed, I would wait. Raise them in a gender neutral environment and see which gender they associate themselves with at a young age. After that, I would get a gender reassignment done. I wouldn't wait any longer than 5 years, 6 years old at most.

I am not sure of that. I saw on Grey's Anatomy of a girl who found out she had testicles and she was happy when she found out and decided to live as a boy. She was a teenager.

[Trickster]

Thats very hard because it kinda give the parents control of what they want. But i think if as Zephyr said "which set of sexual organs is the most prominent" should take dominance and they should remove the other. But if not, i think i would just raise them neutrally and see what they seem to gear towards. Transexual people may not have the organs but they do have the mind of the wrong gender so they change it to the right one. Whatever the child's mind seems to favor or gear towards, then that should decide what the child will be raised as

[ShatteredWings]

I am not sure of that. I saw on Grey's Anatomy of a girl who found out she had testicles and she was happy when she found out and decided to live as a boy. She was a teenager.

thats grey anatomy, seriously youre using that as an example?
and if it was real, he was a boy who was being raised as a girl regardless of the extra organs

tbh unless its only slightly intersex (chromosonal, extremly undevloped 'extra' organs) they shouldnt.
let the child show who they are first like steph said.