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Dr. '''Ian A. Aaronson''', {{MD}}, is a pediatric urologist and retired professor at the {{UNI|Medical University of South Carolina |MUSC}} (MUSC). Aaronson has had a long time interest in the treatment of children born with intersex traits.
In 2006, Aaronson performed feminizing surgery on MC, a 16 month old baby in the custody of the state of South Carolina who had been born with a relatively rare intersex disorder called ovotesticular DSD. After adoption, MC soon expressed gender dissatisfaction, and soon adopted a male identity.
MC's adoptive parents filed [[MC vs Aaronson|federal and state lawsuits]] against the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Greenville Hospital System, {{UNI|Medical University of South Carolina |MUSC}} and individual employees involved in the surgery.
== Background ==
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10 May 2004 Doctors "should stand in shame" at the lack of follow-up studies on the cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex children they have been performing for decades, proclaimed Dr. Ian Aaronson of the [https://medicine.musc.edu/ {{UNI|Medical University of South Carolina]|MUSC}}. These strong words came during a presentation titled "Gender Reassignment: Yea or Nay?" at the [https://www.auanet.org American Urological Association] conference in San Francisco.<ref>{{REFweb
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In fact, in 2004 the subject of the most famous case of sexual reassignment during infancy, [[David Reimer]], committed [[suicide]] at the age of 38 on 5 May 2004, a fact that should not have escaped Aaronson. It had been known for several years that the famous "John/Joan" experiment performed at {{UNI|Johns Hopkins University |JHU}} by psychologist John Money, had failed, with "Brenda" resuming a male identity and taking the name of David Reimer.<ref>{{REFweb
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