End Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children

2,114 views · Published 25 July 2017 · 2:20 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: Human Rights Watch · 2017 · News & Politics

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Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children. Despite decades of controversy over the procedures, doctors operate on children’s gonads, internal sex organs, and genitals when they are too young to participate in the decision, even though the surgeries could be safely deferred.

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