“The harm begins when te birth is treated as a medical crisis, and te consequences of that initial treatment ripple out ever afterward” (302). “The framing of the feminine as a condition of lack, leads physicians to assign 90 percent of anatomically ambiguous infants as female by excising genital tissue” (302).
“A modified operation tha removes most of the clitoris and relocates a bit of the tip is cariously (and euphemistically) call clitoroplasty, clitoral reduction, or clitoral recession and is described as a “simple cosmetic procedure” to differentiate it from the now infamous clitorectomy” (303). “They make an incision around the phallus, as the corona, then dissect the skin away from its underside. Next the ydissect the skin away from the dorsal side and remove as much of the corpora, or erectile bodies, as necessary to create an “appropriate size clitoris”. Next, stitches are placed from the pubic area along both sides of the entire length of what remains of the phallus; wheh these stiches are tightened, it fold up like pleats in a skirt, and recesses into a concealed position behind the mons pubis. If the result is still “too large,” the glans is further reduced by cutting away a pie-shaped wedge” (303).
How can doctors do this to children??? What do they believe they are “FIXING”?????
