Here it goes the first article.
It's a discussion about if genital surgery should be performed when an intersex child is born or when he/she becomes old enough to decide which is the sex with the one he/she identifies him/herself.
As you may know, physicians, psychologists and parents meet together when a kid with non-clearly defined genitalia is born. They talk about pro and contras of a genital surgery and try to decide which sex will the newborn be.
In my opinion, it is really important to let the child grow. We should let him/her decide which will be his/her sex. Otherwise, we can make the wrong decision and there's no need to make him/her go through the situation of having a sex he/she does not identify with. I understand the social problems that come with the fact that we will have a different kid. For example, if our neighbor asks: "Is it a girl or a boy?"; how would we call him/her?; what will the other children say if they notice that his/her genitalia are different?; will he/she be happy this way?.... I barely know how would I react, but the important point for me in this discussion is: who are we to decide the gender identity of a person? Even if it's our son/daughter! If we fail, we will be the culpable of condemning him/her to a biological identity that does not fill with his/her way of viewing him/herself.
I know it's difficult, but as far as I see it, changing each intersex newborn is just a way to make him/her fit into what our society defines as "normal". We should stop doing it, we should all be more open minded and accept that we are not just men and women. There's people who aren't identified yet with one of this two sexes and there's people that will never identify with any of them. They identify themselves just with that label which says "others", and as soon as we accept them, we will do things much easier for all of us.
I would like to know what do you guys think about this, and if you liked the topic I've chosen. Please leave your comments below and feel free to express your own point of view.
Carlota Pujol Gost.
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/why-are-doctors-still-performing-genital-surgery-on-infants
