mike wax
Dec 13, 2021

seems to me that he could make a good case for coercion and sue the doctors.

But there is a legitimate question here.

It looks from the literature like this type of visible-at-birth intersex condition is quite rare. How do you deal with this?

What if someday your kid decides that (s)he wants to change their own anatomy, like trans kids do? What's the responsible response to that?

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In Canada, suing a doctor is very rare. The rest are very good questions that I don't have the answers to. I think if we, as a culture, weren't so quick to shame and bully those kids, the answers would be easier to find.