Wait what, I’d kind of assune that all surgeries have to be consensual?
I’m assuming this refers to surgery on infants, in which case it’s the parents who consent, not the child.
That, but also doctors tend to push parents very hard for surgical interventions when they have an intersex child. Which kind of makes the moral panic about gender affirming care for children look as hypocritical as it is. They love doing gender-related surgery on kids when it reinforces the notion of a gender binary, even on kids who haven’t even developed a sense of self yet, but not so much when it flies in the face of that preconceived notion.
Its a suprise to me that there were even people doing that.
It’s extremely common on intersex infants. Gotta remember that most people barely know intersex people exist. And the doctors will tell the parents there’s “something wrong”, the parents want to have a “normal kid” and are told the kid won’t know, and here we are.
Or if its anything like circumcision, they just do it without saying because its “the default”.
