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2023-04-26 04:00:29 UTC - HELPFUL
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Transgender surgeries are very rare for adolescents and never performed on small children. But intersex babies and toddlers frequently do have irreversible surgeries (including castration). https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/intersex-people http://oiiuk.org/671/official-position-of-oii-on-medical-care/ http://oiiuk.org/707/oii-faq/ https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us https://www.icj.org/sogi-casebook-introduction/chapter-six-intersex/ https://www.oiieurope.org/malta-declaration/ https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/30/first-us-hospital-pledges-end-intersex-surgeries https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/25/us-harmful-surgery-intersex-children https://interactadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Exceptions-to-the-Rule-Curing-the-Laws-Failure-to-Protect-Intersex-Infants.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597036/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_medical_interventions
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