I don’t personally agree with any surgery to a baby, just to make them “normal” or to “fit in”. I just think they should have the decision, if it’s something that comes up for them. It is not one to one with the main post, female genital mutilation is worse in what is done and for the reasoning behind it, but I was more continuing the conversation about gender reassignment, and how it is happening, just not in the way the person you were responding to was probably thinking.

Yes, and while I find it bad that it happens with down syndrome, as well, I understand there are considerations one might think about with difficulties for every genetic difference. A big thing there though is the difference in expectations for their lives, the broad range of types of intersex mutation, and their amount of presentation. Some don’t even know they are intersex until getting genetic testing later in life. In the end, I don’t have a say in what people want in their child, or how they feel in their abilities to raise them, so what I’d like to see is a reasonable explanation of expectations with proper research backing it up, then it’s all down to the parents.