Intersex Infants and Unjustified Surgical Intervention
I. Introduction Providing sex-altering surgery to infants who are born with ambiguous genitalia has been fiercely debated.1 Infants born with ambiguous genitalia have external organs that resemble neither the male nor female sex.2 There are surgical techniques that make it possible to alter the physical appearance of these infants to create a “normal” looking appearance.3 At the time … Continued
