Gender Without Surgery Research Paper

Although surgery to alter an intersex child’s genitals is commonly performed, it is better to assign a gender without surgery. The benefits of assigning a child as male or female, without surgery, include; the opportunity for the child to later change their gender identity, it allows the child become better educated about intersexuality, and provides an opportunity for the child to explore being both male and female. Surgery is difficult to change if the child later identifies as the opposite sex (Chase, 2002). Surgery on intersex infants should be discouraged until the child is old enough to have a strong identity as male or female. More education and information need to be provided to parents of intersex children. Cohen-Kettenis and