Quantum Windbag
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I don't get your point, @QuantumWindbag . If a newborn child has two sets of genitalia, should the doctor be the one to decide which to keep? Or the parents?
Even more compelling is the dilemma today as that infant grows up. Are transgendered children really the result of a doctor's error in judgement?
That makes, actually affirms, the need to recognize the rights of the transgendered.
I think the point of the article is not for the 1/100,000 births where a hermaprhodite is born.
The point of the article is that it's cruel for parents and doctors to declare a gender based on what the kid was born with rather than letting them make a decision later in life. Because that's unfair to the small minority of people who are transgender.
That is what I got out of it.