I keep wondering what happens to intersex kids who have that choice taken away from them. Do they regret the choice adults made on their behalf? Did they have a chance to speak up and ask for the change, or ask to wait? Did they understand what was happening, or was this just a personal secret they were told to keep for the rest of their lives?
That has to be such a hard talk to have. It’s not like a cleft palate or a club foot where the choice is obvious because it remedies a disability. How do they handle the consequences of that as adults?
Every intersex person I know advocates against these unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries. A lot of them are in a situation like Purple here. Their body is taken away from them without asking, and they have to pay and face barriers and experience trauma to get it back. And it’s never quite the same as it was.
I keep wondering what happens to intersex kids who have that choice taken away from them. Do they regret the choice adults made on their behalf? Did they have a chance to speak up and ask for the change, or ask to wait? Did they understand what was happening, or was this just a personal secret they were told to keep for the rest of their lives?
That has to be such a hard talk to have. It’s not like a cleft palate or a club foot where the choice is obvious because it remedies a disability. How do they handle the consequences of that as adults?
Every intersex person I know advocates against these unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries. A lot of them are in a situation like Purple here. Their body is taken away from them without asking, and they have to pay and face barriers and experience trauma to get it back. And it’s never quite the same as it was.