Ban Intersex Surgery for Children: Yes or No?

[Aoi Magi]

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!

Well, according to Intersex Society of North America:

A lot of people think that doctors do “normalizing” surgeries on infants and children with intersex because, if they didn’t, those children would grow up to be very damaged psychologically. In fact, there’s virtually no documented evidence for that.1

Yup, you heard us right: there’s virtually no evidence of people with “uncorrected” intersex genitals suffering increased rates of psychological illness or social ostracization.

In fact, we do have lots of evidence that people who grow up with “uncorrected” intersex genitals do OK. Here’s some of it:

From this link:
http://www.isna.org/faq/healthy

I don't have any links to counter it, nor do I want to, but that research seems to be limited to a first-world populace and that too with only "dozens" of individuals, when the count of people with intersex genitals are much higher. I wonder what the scenario would be if under-developed or developing nations were included. In countries like India, third gender wasn't recognized legally till as recently as 2014, you can imagine how much social acceptance these people get over there.

Most hijras live at the margins of society with very low status; the very word "hijra" is sometimes used in a derogatory manner. The Indian lawyer and author Rajesh Talwar has written a book, titled The Third Sex and Human Rights, highlighting the human rights abuses suffered by the community.[25] Few employment opportunities are available to hijras. Many get their income from extortion (forced payment by disrupting work/life using demonstrations and interference), performing at ceremonies (toli), begging (dheengna), or sex work ('raarha')—an occupation of eunuchs also recorded in premodern times. Violence against hijras, especially hijra sex workers, is often brutal, and occurs in public spaces, police stations, prisons, and their homes.[26] As with transgender people in most of the world, they face extreme discrimination in health, housing, education, employment, immigration, law, and any bureaucracy that is unable to place them into male or female gender categories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(Ind...continent)

Seeking corrective surgeries would be pretty darn hard when they barely have enough money to buy food, when doctors refuse to treat them at their chambers and when even government hospitals refuse them.