Parents Sue After Doctors Decided Their Child Is A Girl

http://www.thefrisky.com/2015-08-13/parents-sue-after-doctors-decide-their-child-is-a-girl/

Parents Sue After Gender Reassignment Surgery Makes Their Intersex Child A Girl - Claiming Gender Mutilation

http://www.medicaldaily.com/gender-reassignment-surgery-parents-sue-doctors-making-their-intersex-child-girl-347804/
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http://economicworld.net/health/parents-sue-after-doctors-decide-their-child-is-a-girl/

About 1 in 2,000 babies innate in a US are deliberate intersex.

Pam and Mark Crawford of Greenville, SC, adopted MC when he was only 20 months aged and afterwards deliberate female. Born with “true hermaphroditism” or both masculine and womanlike anatomy—including a penis, vagina, testicle, and ovarian tissue—doctors had achieved medicine to mislay MC’s masculine anatomy dual months before a Crawfords took him home.
The medicine wasn’t so unusual. An estimated one in 2,000 babies innate in a US are deliberate “intersex,” somewhere between masculine and female, and thousands of surgeries designed to give them possibly masculine or womanlike anatomy are achieved any year.
But in a box of MC, a medicine occurred before a Crawfords could forestall it. Now 10, MC identifies as masculine and his relatives are waging what Buzzfeed calls “a landmark lawsuit opposite a hospitals and state guardians who motionless to put their son by sex-assignment surgery.” Doctors contend behaving such surgeries early allows patients to lift on some-more normal lives.
“Forcing children to be lifted with obscure genitals is unequivocally tough—that’s roughly unethical,” one says. But Pam Crawford, who records a integrate would have sued even if MC identified as female, says “nobody had a right” to select her son’s gender and worries what his life will be like when he reaches adolesence and maybe gets a duration or breasts.
“We only hatred that there were choices done that could have a poignant impact on his being means to be a man. We only don’t wish people to have to go by what he’s going to face.” Patients and relatives disagree intersex surgeries can means earthy and psychological harm; some contend doctors import a patient’s contingent ability to have heterosexual sex above their possess health, per Law Street.
The Crawfords’ lawsuit, however, will concentration exclusively on sensitive consent. The hearing is set for November. (Click, link for more on a case.)
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Comments From Reburn

http://rebrn.com/re/parents-sue-doctors-for-deciding-their-kid-is-a-girl-532035/

The title of this post sounded comically ridiculous until I actually read the article and found out the parents aren't just insane people.

The doctor surgically removed the child's sexual function for the sake of aesthetics. And assigned the wrong gender in the process. That kid deserves some serious compensation.

Suing the doctors who gave their adopted son sex assignment surgery while in foster care.

The kid was a hermaphrodite and they chopped his penis off. This happens fair regularly to intersex people. It's a shame. The fact that " Doctors reported MC’s hormone levels were consistent with a male baby at his age" didn't matter. They just try to make the genitals look normal without giving the child any choice and potentially sterilizing them.
Actually, this is a much more reasonable lawsuit than the clickbait title would suggest
That's the traditional way it's been done. It's not like the doctor was off the reservation. It's easier to make a hole than it is to make a pole, so it used to be anyone with ambiguous genitalia got female parts.

Now a days more docs push for letting the child grow older and decide for themselves, but this can of course lead to uncomfortable situations in school.

I don't think the parents will win. The amount of negligence required for a malpractice suit is very high.
I don't think the parents will win. The amount of negligence required for a malpractice suit is very high

I do not think the parent's goal is completely to get money for this, but to raise awareness of this as an issue so it stops happening, which, since they are in news articles, is succeeding.

Hormone levels were normal for a male, but they performed surgery to assign the baby as a female.

This is do tragic. Even though, Intersex is rare (statistically), I don't see how these or any, doctors (7 or 70 of them), have the right to make this decision. Or the right to perform it without parental consent.
* No matter, if this child was a ward of the state or not *
I think they assumed they had the right or that they could get away with it, or that 'they knew best '

Not consulting or notifying the parents...or soon to be parents... is an outrage in itself.
Defying the hormonal testing is a scientific outrage, IMO

IMO- The child should decide ... at an age when THEY know, how they think & feel....14,16,18 years.
Any sooner than 14, the child should have the right to petition for the right to choose.

The mythological term “hermaphrodite” implies that a person is both fully male and fully female. This is a physiologic impossibility.


http://www.isna.org/faq/hermaphrodite


I still believe parents should be involved in ANY surgical decision unless its life saving. However, I do believe that if you are able to impregnate others you are male and if you are able to become pregnant you are female.

I don't know why we have made it more complicated than that. Its just the label that identifies your place in the process of procreation.

I have never heard of any case, where an intersex can or did reproduce.
* If anyone knows ..post it *
But why should anyone wait to see IF they can reproduce & then gave surgery?
(Look how many infertile people, there are now in the USA, mostly unexplained.)

It would only make them suffer more & longer.

What?
Why?
Were they the parents of the Doctors?


Oooooooooooohhhhh, parents sue their child's doctor after the doctor removed the child's penis!

The thread title was a little misleading.

I thought maybe the doctor was putting on an inappropriate magic show or something.
I knew someone that would remove their glass eye then put it on someone and say "I've got my eye on you!"
I thought it might be something like that.
I was kinda looking forward to reading about a doctor who had a detachable penis.

And...what kind of writing is this for a reporter?
I mean:

it looks to be written by the national special ed spelling bee winner.
Or two stories were written at the same time on the same piece of paper.

Seriously, I can't get over "doctors import a patient's contingent ability to have heterosexual sex above their possess health, per Law Street"
Law Street, Sesame Street, wtf?


I'm wondering if the reporters are.


Other than that, I'd want to hear from the doctor(s).
For all I know the kid had a penis that would never achieve a state of arousal, or would have led to medical complications, or would have turned purple and fallen off anyway, or the alternative was a hysterectomy, or the parents signed a consent form when they first started prenatal care but never read the fine print about an intersexed kid.

Personally I don't think they have a leg to stand on this was done before the child was placed into their home.
But in this screwed up world they will most likely win either way it is a tragedy for all involved.

A couple of the articles looked to me to be a hoax because of all the misspellings and such.. The 3rd one actually looked like a legit article.IMO

I see what you mean, from a legal standpoint. that the child was placed there. However, they seen the child before surgery & agreed to take a 'baby boy'.

Also, since this, (sadly), seems to be the norm, that ,' doctors' decide, without 'outside' interference, or opinions or permission, this could be a landmark case. .. hopefully.

There are other articles, I will look for links. But, this story, was not really picked up in the USA.
* I am curious as to why... ?
Perhaps all the sexual agendas .. so much change, so fast *

The defense Attorney's will have a field day with this statement if it is in fact true... Since they had to have known when they picked up the child that is was now a girl...
They could have said no.. We were committed to a boy not a girl..
Doesn't look good for them..

Why hasn't the states picked up on it.. Hell we have enough of our own scandals going on not enough print room

And the doctors did hormone testing, & it came back mostly male.. Wtf!?
And of course, if they are being sued, they can't talk now.
Not that they would of anyway.

Palm Beach Florida-5 days ago

http://m.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national/parents-sue-hospital-after-doctors-allegedly-perfo/nnLZB/
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ACH HA!!!! Original story from 2013 & the case goes to court, this November.

US News & World Report

http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/14/parents-of-intersex-child-sue-over-unnecessary-surgery/

May 15,2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/health/child-sex-surgery-suit/