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Kessler’s arguments about how intersexed infants are treated in the medical field are thought-provoking because she and others sought to prove that doctors were not adequately treating infants who seemed to have abnormal genitals. I was rather appalled to learn that more often than not when a baby has abnormal genitals and they are treated, they are usually changed into a female. I thought it was so unfair and shocking that even if the baby was originally a boy, they were forced to become a female without their knowledge. I mean how can a doctor do something so cruel and not think of what it would be like for that “female� to grow up probably having issues and always not feeling right in their own body.
The polls that Kessler did on a bunch of college students about corrective genital surgery done on infants shows that many if not most of the people would never want corrective surgery done without even if their genitals were deemed abnormal. In some respects I can see a positive to altering a girl who has a large clitoris to be smaller, and that is not that horrible in my opinion because at least the girl never loses her birth given gender. However, I just cannot agree with making a male into a female just because he was born with a small penis. It’s not like a boy cannot function in society with a small penis, and it is truly going to be a mental burden for any male to try and live as a female when they weren’t born that way. I just think that doctors try to fix people's bodies so that they fit some kind of a norm, and doctors appear to make changes to a person without regard to how it will affect their patient in the long run of their life.