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Post by Chu Chu on Oct 21, 2022 11:48:23 GMT -5
Traditionally, doctors when having a child/patient with both sex organs, used to make a decision themselves, and they used to assign gender and remove the "extra" genitalia. I can't imagine the difficulties faced by some who underwent this surgery and spent most of their lives feeling they were the "other" gender (often without knowing about their original state). Any MDs out there have more information on this? Please know that this is about biology and not a political of social judgement.
There have been bizarre situations described in the literature, whereby doctors have "assigned a sex" in infancy in order to "correct" problems, and these have turned out very poorly. One that I remember learning about was an infant male who had a horribly botched circumcision, with loss of the penis, and upon advice of the doctor, was raised as a female with hormone therapy and later surgery. I think that the idea was if you raise this child as a girl they will never know any better, and all will be fine. This child wound up with severe gender dysphoria, and depression, and ultimately committed suicide. |
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Post by HC92 on Oct 21, 2022 12:29:10 GMT -5
Unfortunately, suicidal ideation and suicide attempt rates among kids and adults identifying as trans are extremely high. “Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth.” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32345113/ |
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