Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/us/intersex-surgeries-gothere/index.html

"Doctors have been imposing their assumptions on heteronormativity and what a child should look like, and intersex bodies, for decades. There are still people who practice outdated medicine and the only way to protect children from these people, who through culture or ignorance or hubris, are doing these things, is to actually put something in writing in the court of law."

Everyone deserves autonomy over their own body, infants can't consent to genital surgery.

"We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge that nature provides humanity with a wide range of forms, so that all of our bodies can be recognized as valid. Unless there is an actual rare functional problem, our bodies should not be altered in infancy, and only those functional problems should be addressed. Our genitals should be altered only if we ourselves request it, to make ourselves comfortable in our own skin, not to make society comfortable by our medical erasure. Society must come again to embrace the diversity that is nature's gift to us." - Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello
https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2011/04/intersex-genitalia-illustrated-and.html

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@tansy That's always a difficult conversation. I hope it goes well if you decide to confront her about it.

@tansy I have a friend who went through that, and it has caused them a lot of issues. Sometimes intersex reassignment surgeries are sold to parents as operations to "fix" hypospadias. This article has a lot of good information about that: https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2013/02/hypospadias-intersexuality-and-gender.html

That blog has a lot of good information about intersex and related topics: https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2011/04/intersex-genitalia-illustrated-and.html

I first started looking into this because I was circumcised as an infant without my consent, and that has caused me a lot of problems. While not as severe as most intersex reassignment operations, I was cut so tight that my skin would sometimes tear and bleed. I wasn't left with enough skin to properly cover an erection. All children deserve to be protected from genital surgery without consent, whether they are male, female, or intersex.

@haskal I need to get my rotary dial phone reconnected to my freepbx server. When I moved from cables crimped and plugged directly into a switch to a patch panel, I think I miswired something, or I have a faulty panel.

@thufie Isn't firefox going to be adding a tor mode to private browsing soon? I wonder if it's related to that.

@mntmn nice trackball

@feld They should have made the actor restore his foreskin for the role, or tack one on with cgi.