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Posted on 05/14/2013 7:18:06 PM PDT by posterchild
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A South Carolina couple sued doctors and state social workers on Tuesday for subjecting a 16-month-old child born with both male and female genitalia to what they say was medically unnecessary and irreversible sex-assignment surgery while the toddler was in foster care.
The state and federal lawsuits - believed by the couple's lawyers to be the first of their kind in the United States - argue that doctors should not have performed surgery to make the child's body appear to be female when they knew they could not predict how gender would develop.
The child, now 8, has shown strong signs of identifying as male and recently began living as a boy, according to Pam and Mark Crawford, who adopted him after the surgery.
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May this innocent child and the monsters who mutilated him both receive justice. [SC ping.]
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What in the world has happened to common sense? They should have waited. Probably thought it would be too hard to get a hermaphrodite child adopted out. He ended up being a male and now because of hasty stupidity the poor child cannot live his life as one.
I don’t know what should be done....all I know is that I’m going to be 60 soon and I’m glad of it....so sorry to leave this world such a mess for my children and grandchildren...
I know a person with that defect who was decided by parents to be a boy. Turns out she was very much a girl. Not her only genetic issue, either. Pretty sad mess.
I’ve heard that they are usually male but it’s easier for the doc to whip off the appendage.
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