BBC documentary on the sick founder of gender ideology, John Money, from when the BBC had some credibility

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[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree. I think it's bad medicine to suggest radical surgery and hormone therapy to treat what is a mental disorder in the case of transgenderism. Not sure about trans/intersex, though. What do you do in the rare event that your child has both or deformed genitals. Doctors and parents need to make choices for the wellbeing of the child, but what do you tell them and what are those consequences. I watched this woman talking about how she found out she'd been born a he, but had some significant genital deformities. Her doctor and parents made her a woman and lied to her:

https://youtu.be/88z23YFgNdY?si=5NsMfXP5HCVNB2-V

[–]ID10T[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the highly unlikely circumstance that my child was born intersex, I would not do anything and let them present as they chose. They would be able to decide on if they wanted surgery as an adult.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Children with indeterminate genitals are exceptionally rare, but there are well thought out procedures and protocols to address them. They used to, quite honestly, think that early surgical intervention was the best option for the child but over time they realised that that wasn’t actually the best approach so now they advise to leave as is, unless there are other issues (some children may have urological or bowel issues too which are life threatening) and let the child decide for themselves. There is also usually counselling for the family to help them cope.

A lot of the shit the Troons spout about intersex is either just plain wrong or seriously out of date.

Children with “deformed” genitalia is a completely different issue from indeterminate and there are surgical procedures to address various deformities (eg hypospadias, epispadias, don’t google) I don’t believe they’re one shot repairs though so the poor children have to go through quite a lot of surgery - but their sex is never in doubt.