Parents in India, desperate for sons, are giving their young daughters sex changes

[Lobotomy]

Heard this on the radio today and it made me sick to my stomach.

Girls as young as one are being forced into sex change operations in India by parents desperate for a son.
Surgeons in the city of Indore are reported to be 'converting' hundreds of girls a year, who are subsequently pumped full of hormone drugs.
A report in the respected Hindustan Times newspaper said the 'shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son, is unfolding at conservative Indore's well-known clinics and hospitals on children who are one to five years old.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ons-India.html

[Sir Comradical]

I think under these situations it makes perfect sense for the state to take children away from their fucked up parents. It's interesting to note that it's not the poorest Indians who are doing this shit (they probably can't afford it). Another fact, my home state of Kerala is the only one where female infanticide pretty much doesn't happen and it's the only state were there are more females than males. This stuff happens more in the Hindi-belt and Punjab, a lot of it is cultural.

[Queercommie Girl]

Well, it's somewhat more civilised than actual female infanticide, but really to force a non-transgendered person to change sex is just as barbaric as denying the right of a really transgendered person to do the same.

Let's have more support for trans-women like me to restore the gender balance though!

More appreciation for women and the "feminine" is needed...

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

My dad wanted a son... He was very disappointed when his only son came out as a woman.

[GX.]

I have to call the bluff on this story. Sometimes surgery is performed on intersex children without their approval, usually in infancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interse...cal_procedures). Of course the fact that this is often done when the genitalia present no medical problem is all kinds of messed up, and has a lot of intersex people pissed off. But this should be opposed on its own grounds, rather than sensationalizing the issue. The details of this story are off, from the cheap price given to the details of the surgery. Complete phalloplasty is very involved, expensive, and has pretty sub par results to the dismay of a lot of FTMs. It's not likely that it is being performed on infants.

Doctors claimed the operations were performed on children whose internal organs do not match their external genitalia - most commonly, girls born with some internal male organs.India has no system to monitor that claim.

Ah, so it isn't that this type of surgery is being performed on unambiguous females (extremely unlikely) but that there's no way of knowing that it isn't. Which is obviously the same thing. Typical daily mail