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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I actually knew the later bit. Thanks though. If it's just addressing the external genitals I don't have much of a problem with it. I'm not a fan of early reassignment surgery myself.
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The problem with not doing early surgery is that - 1. It is harder to do the surgeries later since they are multi stage procedures and it's easier to control the children postop. 2. There is a LOT of stigma for children growing up in school with NO assigned sex. Who do they play with? What bathroom do they use? A lot of human sex characteristics are learned. Much of this is learned during very early childhood. It is next to impossible not to imprint some type of gender trait onto a child- male or female. 3. For the genetically male children that are reassigned as females, it is because there is NO WAY to form a functioning male penis. These children will not grow into adults who can have sex. The vast majority (98%) grow up to be normal, though infertile, sexually active women versus infertile non-sexually active men. This is a better option than 100% nonfunctional men or 100% ostracized children who are allowed to choose what they want to be and >50% become nonfunctional men. The 2% that are unhappy have been blown out of proportion with regard to the 98% that have been very successfully treated.
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