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* http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/should-we-fix-intersex-children/373536/
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_surgery
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_surgery
* [http://www.isna.org ISNA]
* [http://www.accordalliance.org/ Accord Alliance]
* [https://interactadvocates.org/ InterAct]
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Latest revision as of 10:44, 25 February 2022

Genital normalization surgeries are surgical procedures carried out on abnormal genital organs to make them appear to be normal.

A long list of damaging side effects—painful scarring, reduced sexual sensitivity, torn genital tissue, removal of natural hormones and possible sterilization—combined with the chance of assigning children a gender they don’t feel comfortable with has left many calling for the surgeries to be heavily restricted.

See also