1. Surgical Sex Reassignment Should Not Be Done At Birth
... to resemble the sex the doctor thinks the child should be. (Dreger) Most doctors practicing in the field of pediatric surgery and pediatric endocrinology feel that a child can not function in life without normally developed genitals. (Lehrman) This belief is based upon the 1955 theory of John Money of Johns Hopkins University that children are psychosexually ... fashion". (Fausto-Sterling) The intersexed child, as a result, is often left to deal with the psychological problems themselves. Dr. William Reiner, a child psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, feels that the most important...
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