1 yr old Girls Forced To Have Sex Change Operation
Jun 27, 2011 15:32:57 GMT -5
Post by shann0 on Jun 27, 2011 15:32:57 GMT -5
My heart breaks for these poor babies! What a cruel and unusual punishment simply for being born a girl. God Help Us!
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008623/Girls-young-ONE-forced-sex-change-operations-India.html
Girls as young as ONE 'forced to have sex change operations in India'
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.
Operations: Doctors in the city of Indore, in India, are said to have carried out hundreds of procedures to turn girls into boys
'The process being used to 'produce' a male child from a female is known as genitoplasty.'
Indian society places a strong value on producing a son and heir, with daughters often seen as an expensive burden to be married off.
Sex determination tests during pregnancy are illegal in India to try to prevent the common practice of women choosing to abort female foetuses.
In some states such as Punjab the ratio of women to men has dropped as low as seven to ten.
Wealthy parents from Delhi and Mumbai are reportedly flocking to Indore, a city in the centre of India, for the relatively low cost £2,000 treatment to surgically 'correct' their daughters.
News of rampant abuse of the surgery - normally used to correct genital abnormality in fully-grown patients - led to a furious backlash on Twitter and other social networking sites on Sunday.
The author and feminist Taslima Nasreen led the outrage, tweeting: 'Shocking! Not only do people kill unborn girls, they turn girls into boys by genitoplasty.'
She added: 'Doctors who practice illegal Female Foeticide & Genitoplasty should get life in prison.'
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights today announced it had asked the state government of Madhya Pradesh to investigate the doctors and the hospitals named in the report.
Attack: Writer Taslima Nasreen said doctors who carried out the procedure should be jailed for life
Parents have allegedly pressed for the surgeries despite being told by doctors that the 'converted' male would be infertile.
The procedure involves doctors 'building' a penis using tissue from female organs, with the child then being fed hormonal medicine.
Seven genitoplasty experts in Indore boasted each of them had turned 200 to 300 girls into 'boys' so far, with only one being older than 14, the legal age of consent to such an operation.
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.
'When the child grows up, he or she would be confused about the gender he or she belongs to. This surgery can stop the child from having sex-determination disorder and psychological problems,' said Dr Milind Joshi, a paediatric surgeon who performs the procedure at a city hospital.
A parent whose child underwent such a surgery at the age of two told the Hindustan Times on the condition of anonymity: 'I think my child would not be confused over his gender when he grows up and can live a normal life as he would not have any memories of the surgery.'
Another Indore paediatric surgeon performing the procedure, Dr Brijesh Lahoti, said, 'In India, there is no problem in performing these surgeries as only the consent from parents and an affidavit is required.
These are reconstruction surgeries where sex of the child is determined based on its internal organs and not just on the basis of external genitalia.'
With no proper laws to protect rights of the child that young, the practice might have a larger social ramification, say medico-legal experts.
'The surgery can have profound, long-term psychological effects on an individual, who might not accept the gender assigned by parents and doctors before age of consent,' said Suchitra Inamdar, a counsellor from Mumbai.
Calling it a highly sensitive issue, Dr Joshi said people should be sensitised about these surgeries.
Asked about consent of the child, he said, 'In India, consent is sought from parents till the child is 14.' This raises a lot of questions about rights of these children, who might grow up to believe that they wanted to be the way they were born and not corrected surgically.
'The Medical Council of India and the health ministry should look into the matter. There has to be some guideline or law on how a child who is barely old enough to talk can undergo a life-changing surgery at the parents' will,' said IMA secretary, Indore branch, Dr Anil Bhadori.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008623/Girls-young-ONE-forced-sex-change-operations-India.html#ixzz1QVhog6y7
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008623/Girls-young-ONE-forced-sex-change-operations-India.html
Girls as young as ONE 'forced to have sex change operations in India'
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.
Operations: Doctors in the city of Indore, in India, are said to have carried out hundreds of procedures to turn girls into boys
'The process being used to 'produce' a male child from a female is known as genitoplasty.'
Indian society places a strong value on producing a son and heir, with daughters often seen as an expensive burden to be married off.
Sex determination tests during pregnancy are illegal in India to try to prevent the common practice of women choosing to abort female foetuses.
In some states such as Punjab the ratio of women to men has dropped as low as seven to ten.
Wealthy parents from Delhi and Mumbai are reportedly flocking to Indore, a city in the centre of India, for the relatively low cost £2,000 treatment to surgically 'correct' their daughters.
News of rampant abuse of the surgery - normally used to correct genital abnormality in fully-grown patients - led to a furious backlash on Twitter and other social networking sites on Sunday.
The author and feminist Taslima Nasreen led the outrage, tweeting: 'Shocking! Not only do people kill unborn girls, they turn girls into boys by genitoplasty.'
She added: 'Doctors who practice illegal Female Foeticide & Genitoplasty should get life in prison.'
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights today announced it had asked the state government of Madhya Pradesh to investigate the doctors and the hospitals named in the report.
Attack: Writer Taslima Nasreen said doctors who carried out the procedure should be jailed for life
Parents have allegedly pressed for the surgeries despite being told by doctors that the 'converted' male would be infertile.
The procedure involves doctors 'building' a penis using tissue from female organs, with the child then being fed hormonal medicine.
Seven genitoplasty experts in Indore boasted each of them had turned 200 to 300 girls into 'boys' so far, with only one being older than 14, the legal age of consent to such an operation.
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.
'When the child grows up, he or she would be confused about the gender he or she belongs to. This surgery can stop the child from having sex-determination disorder and psychological problems,' said Dr Milind Joshi, a paediatric surgeon who performs the procedure at a city hospital.
A parent whose child underwent such a surgery at the age of two told the Hindustan Times on the condition of anonymity: 'I think my child would not be confused over his gender when he grows up and can live a normal life as he would not have any memories of the surgery.'
Another Indore paediatric surgeon performing the procedure, Dr Brijesh Lahoti, said, 'In India, there is no problem in performing these surgeries as only the consent from parents and an affidavit is required.
These are reconstruction surgeries where sex of the child is determined based on its internal organs and not just on the basis of external genitalia.'
With no proper laws to protect rights of the child that young, the practice might have a larger social ramification, say medico-legal experts.
'The surgery can have profound, long-term psychological effects on an individual, who might not accept the gender assigned by parents and doctors before age of consent,' said Suchitra Inamdar, a counsellor from Mumbai.
Calling it a highly sensitive issue, Dr Joshi said people should be sensitised about these surgeries.
Asked about consent of the child, he said, 'In India, consent is sought from parents till the child is 14.' This raises a lot of questions about rights of these children, who might grow up to believe that they wanted to be the way they were born and not corrected surgically.
'The Medical Council of India and the health ministry should look into the matter. There has to be some guideline or law on how a child who is barely old enough to talk can undergo a life-changing surgery at the parents' will,' said IMA secretary, Indore branch, Dr Anil Bhadori.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008623/Girls-young-ONE-forced-sex-change-operations-India.html#ixzz1QVhog6y7
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