Hello, I am 28, male. I am not sure if this is the right place for my question, but I’ll try. I recently read about the people who are called “intersex”. As I understood, there are people who are born with genitalia that differ from the stereotypes either by their appearance or functionality. For example boy whose penis is smaller than the masculine genital stereotype is subjected to surgery. They turn him into a girl. This was disturbing information for me. I don’t understand this. Are they causing the damage to society so they have to operate them without they knowledge.
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Hello. Yes, intersex people are those whose genitals differ from masculine or feminine stereotypes, without such variance in genital appearance meaning an inherit deformation or pathology. Girls born with clitoris that are larger than the feminine genital stereotype are turn into boys as well as boys whose penises are smaller than the masculine genital stereotype, because their bodies contradict stereotypes about masculine genitalia. I am not sure how to accept this fact and if the damage is caused or not. But the mutilating surgeries are performed with these people. These surgeries are aimed to transforming intersex bodies into culturally acceptable ones. However, they violate our autonomy of decision as well as our bodily integrity.
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