https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/25/us-harmful-surgery-intersex-children
Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and...
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/07/should-we-fix-intersex-children/373536/
Jul 8, 2014 - Standard medical practice is often to operate to "normalize" genitals, but some families are fighting back.
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https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/26/us-anti-trans-bills-also-harm-intersex-children
The spate of anti-transgender legislative proposals across the United States in recent years also threatens to undermine the fundamental rights of intersex...
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https://19thnews.org/2021/01/california-aims-to-be-the-first-state-to-ban-intersex-surgeries/
Jan 20, 2021 - If passed, a bill would make California the first state in the nation to bar the surgeries for kids under age six.
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https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/intersex-childhood-interventions-clash-with-transgender-care-bans/
Nov 14, 2025 - Procedures done on intersex infants, including vaginoplasty and phalloplasty, are the exact procedures banned for young trans people in many states.
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https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us
This report examines the physical and psychological damage caused by medically unnecessary surgery on intersex people, who are born with chromosomes, gonads,...
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https://interactadvocates.org/boston-childrens-hospital-intersex-surgery/
Nov 10, 2022 - Boston Children's Hospital stated that they will stop performing some types of surgery on intersex infants. This victory has a rich history.
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