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Wow, this is a tough one. What a heartbreak for parents who have to make this choice and the children who have to live with the consequences. Giving these families some sort of grace period to figure things out seems like a good idea. On the other hand, I've heard of some people born this way saying, "Just leave me like I am, this is how God created me."
1 posted on 02/18/2005 5:05:52 PM PST by nyg4168
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Sometimes mistakes are made. Parents are terribly defensive on behalf of their children in those cases.

When in doubt (years after the fact) don't ask!

2 posted on 02/18/2005 5:09:53 PM PST by muawiyah
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I watched a program on this. It really is rare. Hundreds of babies seems an aggrandized number.
All unborn children start out female. Sometimes the testicles do not drop, giving a male child the outward appearance of female.

Once again it is very rare.
3 posted on 02/18/2005 5:10:23 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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Some huge percentage of intergender children are male without fully formed male genitalia. I had a client who when through three operations by the time he was four. I saw the pix of him in the hospital and by the time he had had his third operation, he was no longer the happy toddler. BUT he had the requisite equipment. wow. such pain in this world. I did the paternity case forcing his bio father to not only pay for his college but encouraging, thanks to a wonderful judge, a relationship with a father he had never known.


4 posted on 02/18/2005 5:10:55 PM PST by Mercat (Andy walks with me Andy talks with me, Andy tells me I am His own.)
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The past handling of such cases has been idiocy. The idea that you can change a boy into a girl just by mutilating him & giving him some hormones is about the most repugnant thing in recent medical science, aside from abortion.


5 posted on 02/18/2005 5:11:57 PM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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Jamie Lee Curtis would have made a terrible man. It looks like they guessed correctly.


6 posted on 02/18/2005 5:17:24 PM PST by Patti_ORiley
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Back when they first started doing sex change operations this is the only case I could support it for. I do think mistakes were/are made when a decision is made at birth. I think in the past it was made more to make the child look normal and shield them. I would think they would be able to determine the sex fairly early in life. But I'm not sure what criteria is used to do so. I'm sure corrective surgery isn't a pleasant thing but it would be better than being trapped in an opposite sex body.


17 posted on 02/18/2005 5:36:01 PM PST by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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Earlier thread on same AP article here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346318/posts


30 posted on 02/18/2005 6:16:07 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (How do you spell dynasty? P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S!)
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The HRC and other MSM mediots must see this as a way of "bluring" the debate on homosexual marriage. It is pure propaganda.

Create confusion.

This is not a difficult debate. This is not unlike the thalidimide babies. Where are the gene tests? This story is way to basic.

First CBS now PMSNBC are pushing these stories? coincidence?

What happened? All the NYT homosexuals went to work for the wacko cable groups?

Goebles would be proud.


34 posted on 02/18/2005 6:41:37 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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