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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Were the standards any different in the 80s? I've heard stories of people getting "corrective surgery" in infancy but the cases that I've heard are not from the US or are much older.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Outside of North America maybe, that I don't know. But in North America they tell the parents they won't know the gender for a while, to name and dress and groom the child as the parents choose, but they let them know it might change. It's so rare though, I've seen one case in 20 years of hospital work.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Human Rights Watch was pretty concerned about prematurely assigning gender to intersex children, back in 2017. I expect there's more regional variation in this than you'd think.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I have a feeling here in Indiana, they tend not to tell the parents that they won't know the gender for a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I would not want to try and explain "intersex" to some of my high school classmates (or my brother TBH). "You mean my kid was born a slur?"

    Maybe Kentucky has changed in the past few decades, but I doubt it.

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