RE: Ban Intersex Surgery for Children: Yes or No?
February 18, 2019 at 10:04 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2019 at 10:24 pm by GrandizerII.)
(February 18, 2019 at 9:50 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 18, 2019 at 9:36 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Except I didn't say that. Doing research doesn't mean Ive become an expert. It means I've read what experts had to say. Do you have an argument to make that doesn't mainly involve my character?
No, no argument to make. It's a discussion, and probably should have been a discussion from the beginning without anyone strongly taking sides. And what I am discussing with you is that maybe you shouldn't go from 0 to 120 with an issue that you saw on TV and you are pretty far removed from. There are some issues that I know an awfully lot about and they have a direct bearing on my life, and sometimes a television inspired google warrior decides to wade into my water and start swinging hard on the issue, thinking that they are doing me a favor. What they are doing is frequently the opposite of a favor.
I don't know what issues you're talking about specifically so I can't say if what you're saying is a good analogy to what's happening here. Are you talking about male circumcision or what?
(February 18, 2019 at 1:58 pm)Yonadav Wrote: This is one of those issues that I don't think should be tried in the court of public opinion. The initial policies about performing these surgeries were largely informed by intersexed individuals to whom these surgeries were not available at the time that they were born. The policy has been evolving in response to feedback from those who have been operated on. I don't think that it is an issue where there are any bad actors with bad motives.
Going back to this first post of yours here, what has the feedback been so far? Mostly positive or negative? I don't see you going into the specifics here. Also would like some sources that support what you're saying. Thanks.
ETA: Also I want you to appeal to your humanity for a minute and tell me what you would say to someone like this person who was put through the surgery non-consensually as a child ... and was not helped by it at all, to put it nicely. Would you tell them it's a complex issue and that it couldn't have been helped?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2...539853001/
