I hesitate to make such an accusation. We don't really know the details of the case -- the kid probably is a psychological mess, and there could even be physiological reasons behind it. Or it could all be a ploy ... but why would the parents do that?
As an example, I'm thinking of "Tula" (Carolyn Cossey), a transsexual who actually posed in Playboy, back in the early '90s. He/she started life as a hermaphrodite, and her parents were given the choice between "boy" and "girl." They chose "boy," but Cossey later said he/she was really a girl inside....
Who's to say what's right, in a situation like that?
I don’t think this is a case of a true hermaphrodite; it sounds more like a case of political activism.
Situations like that are not all that common and need to be dealt with privately, within the family. I see no need to go around announcing it to the whole world, making a political agenda out of it, and forcing changes in laws etc. That’s what’s bothering most people about this.
Too many people today have this martyr complex and are trying to rearrange the whole world to suit them, instead of accepting what can’t be changed and living with it.
If someone comes up to me and looks and acts female, that’s how I treat them. If they are a hermaphrodite, that’s a sad situation and I feel sorry for them. I don’t want, nor need, to know what they’ve had to go through, and their whole medical and sexual history.