Was just talking at dinner with family, and it seems a logical action to ban circumcision, as in most cases, doesn’t have consent, and is a major (genitals are important) body modification. Can we ban it at the state level? Just a thought.

  • Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz
    647·
    9 months ago

    Personally I find it a lot more disturbing that intersex babies are still assgined a binary gender by a doctor and then get surgery to shape their genitals. The parents are often scaremongered and pressured into consenting and the affected people don’t know it was done to them until firmly into adulthood. It’s often a sterilising surgery too.

    If you are against doctors doing gender changing surgery, please start with the babies? But oh no! Then the argument that there are only two genders falls apart.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
      12·
      9 months ago

      Is it still practice? Even when I studied, long time ago, I thought it was rather consensus that it’s gets worse results in the the long run.

      • Jojo@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        It still happens, but I don’t believe it’s as common as it once was (per capita intersex person, which is also a very small number)

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Look at what happened to David Reiner if you really want to be sickened.

      I’m pretty sure that I’m intersex myself and had something done to me when I was an infant, but there is no way for me to ever find out. My only evidence is apparently my dong is pretty massive for a trans dude, which is a nice thing to hear from a nurse.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      9 months ago

      Personally I find it a lot more disturbing that intersex babies are still assgined a binary gender by a doctor and then get surgery to shape their genitals. The parents are often scaremongered and pressured into consenting and the affected people don’t know it was done to them until firmly into adulthood. It’s often a sterilising surgery too.

      I mean, yeah? Could we maybe agree that medically unnecessary genital surgery should be off the table for infants and small children, regardless of what surgery we’re talking about?

      Then the argument that there are only two genders falls apart.

      Only in the way that polydactyly makes the argument that humans are normally born with 5 fingers on each hand fall apart. It’s just that people with atypical numbers of fingers aren’t a political hot button of the day.