Well, there are endocrine disorders that cause "abnormally" large clitorises (?), so I can understand a parent being worried about the stigma attached to that, discomfort, whatever. The part I have trouble with regarding any corrective surgery is the issue of consent. When you start talking about fucked up studies like this, or having to lie spread eagle for all manner of doctors to parade past and look at your "deformity," it just gets 10 times worse.
And it made me think about the converse situation. So, say I got pregnant on that medication I take and decided to risk it and wound up with a boy with feminized genitals. No doctor in their right mind would be recommending I put my child through a penis enlargement at 6. Nor, frankly, would I. (Nor, frankly, can I even begin to imagine what that child actually would go through in a lock room.)
This situation is highlighting some pretty serious gender disparities. It's startling.
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Date: 2010-06-18 01:05 am (UTC)And it made me think about the converse situation. So, say I got pregnant on that medication I take and decided to risk it and wound up with a boy with feminized genitals. No doctor in their right mind would be recommending I put my child through a penis enlargement at 6. Nor, frankly, would I. (Nor, frankly, can I even begin to imagine what that child actually would go through in a lock room.)
This situation is highlighting some pretty serious gender disparities. It's startling.