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India's Catholic Bishops Condemn Sex Change Surgeries for Baby Girls
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FCEGM
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Even the word “horrible” isn’t strong enough for this diabolical practice.The Catholic bishops of India have strongly condemned the “horrible practice” of submitting baby girls to sex change surgeries, urging instead the promotion of the dignity of women in society.
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ringil
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Oh my God! I’ve never even heard of this. How would this even occur to somebody?!?
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Dale_M
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It made small splash in the news a couple weeks ago, and we had a thread over in the World News forum. If the reports are true, then it is an unthinkable medical atrocity: it would effectively turn the girls into transsexuals… persons whose gender identity is at odds with their body. In the West, we learned a hard lesson not to do this to intersex children until they are old enough to declare their gender identity. As you might expect, it leads to profoundly unhappy lives, sometimes ending in suicide.Oh my God! I’ve never even heard of this. How would this even occur to somebody?!?
However, I am reluctant to fully believe the reports. First because such surgeries are unthinkable and will have a tragic outcome. Second because I haven’t seen independent confirmation from Western news sources, and I think a story this serious merits attention.
Mary_Gail_36
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Hi Dale, I found this article. It claims that this surgery is not possible. I found this story a bit odd, considering how difficult these surgeries are in adults.
dnaindia.com/india/report_indore-surgeons-ridicule-reports-of-sex-change-operations-on-kids_1560260
dnaindia.com/india/report_indore-surgeons-ridicule-reports-of-sex-change-operations-on-kids_1560260
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Mattapoisett64
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People are right to be skeptical of this “story.” I believe it’s another example of how the gaping maw of the endless news cycle grabs and hypes inflammatory stories.
The following article appears in the July 15 edition of the newsmagazine The Week:
*"The international outcry over reports that Indian doctors have been performing mass sex-change operations to turn infant girls into boys is completely overblown, said S.V. Korwal [writing in the Hindustan Times]. It’s understandable that people would believe this tale – after all, ours is still ‘a society where parents sometimes willingly kill’ their female children, and we all know that female fetuses are aborted at much higher rates than male ones are. So international newspapers grabbed the story and hyped it, alleging that at one hospital in Indore, scores of little girls are being surgically and hormonally altered each year to pass as boys. . . .
But if you go back to the original – admittedly poorly sourced – story, you see that the doctors said that such surgeries are only performed in cases of ambiguously gendered infants. ‘Correction of ambiguous genitalia is a legal and validated procedure, and it shouldn’t be confused with sex change.’ Most likely, what happened in Indore was that one or more surgeons specialized in correcting genital defects, so parents of affected children traveled there to have the surgery done. The grateful parents may believe that ‘the surgeons gave them a son’ – but that doesn’t make it so."*
The following article appears in the July 15 edition of the newsmagazine The Week:
*"The international outcry over reports that Indian doctors have been performing mass sex-change operations to turn infant girls into boys is completely overblown, said S.V. Korwal [writing in the Hindustan Times]. It’s understandable that people would believe this tale – after all, ours is still ‘a society where parents sometimes willingly kill’ their female children, and we all know that female fetuses are aborted at much higher rates than male ones are. So international newspapers grabbed the story and hyped it, alleging that at one hospital in Indore, scores of little girls are being surgically and hormonally altered each year to pass as boys. . . .
But if you go back to the original – admittedly poorly sourced – story, you see that the doctors said that such surgeries are only performed in cases of ambiguously gendered infants. ‘Correction of ambiguous genitalia is a legal and validated procedure, and it shouldn’t be confused with sex change.’ Most likely, what happened in Indore was that one or more surgeons specialized in correcting genital defects, so parents of affected children traveled there to have the surgery done. The grateful parents may believe that ‘the surgeons gave them a son’ – but that doesn’t make it so."*
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Dale_M
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Mattapoisett64 , thank you for that update.
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