For subscribers: Advocates say Arizona's transgender surgery ban blocks care that trans youth need and want while normalizing procedures forced on intersex children.
Many bills restricting gender-affirming care for minors contain specific exemptions for intersex youth. SB 1138 states that it does not apply to “services to an individual born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development,” language which Brown-King said is used to pathologize intersex people.
In the vast majority of cases, interACT writes, such procedures could safely be delayed until the intersex person is old enough to decide for themselves what, if any, procedures they want."Denying both groups control over their bodies upholds a very narrow and fear-based definition of ‘normal’ — one that looks like a ‘typical’ body, at whatever cost to the individual,” the statement says.
Many intersex people grow up to wish they could have had a say in the decision-making about such procedures, interACT writes. These procedures can come with serious risks, the statement says, including chronic pain, scarring, loss of sexual function, urinary incontinence and sterilization. Phoenix Children's Reproductive Anomalies & Differences of Sex Development Clinic specializes in caring for intersex youth. The clinic's director, Dr. Kathleen van Leeuwen, said the clinic has worked closely with interACT and includes the group's website in the resources it gives to families to help them make decisions.
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