Ban Intersex Surgery for Children: Yes or No?

[Aoi Magi]

The problem is that many intersex people, after going through these surgeries when younger, experience various forms of trauma, seeing that society is unable to accept them for who they are because they want every individual to either be clearly a man with a penis or a woman with a vagina. And in addition, even parents report feeling regret later on when they realize they had been lied to by their doctors and thereby had to face the dreaded moments of confessing to their own children the fuckups they allowed.

The issue is complex for sure, but the solution is generally simple, if you put top priority on the basic human rights of the individual: let the intersex children decide for themselves once they have informed consent about the whole thing. It's not like parents always know what's best for their kids. And as for social pressure and such, intersex individuals shouldn't have to pay for the cruelty of society. People need to fucking learn to show support and understanding for these people and not let convention dictate how these individuals should be like.

The thing, I feel, is that this trauma can occur in both situations, children who are transgender are not easily accepted in society even in this age, no matter how much we say that they should be accepted! The reality that I see around me is that people are still being driven to depression and suicide if not outright killed for breaking the so-called gender norm of society. A child who has to face this might grow to resent not only their parents for not giving them a potential "normal" life, but also themselves thinking it is their fault for being different!