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Even with progressive ideas of today, the medical communities as well as many people outside that community have strict ideas as well as standards of how to treat cases of intersex infants. Today the majority of people have the idea that an infant who is born as intersex baby should be made into either a boy or girl, immediately. Doctors encourage the confused parents to pick the sex of their child sooner rather than later. Beside the chromosomal factors of the infant doctors use “cultural factors as the “correct� sixe of the penis and the capacity of the vagina� (The medical Construction of Gender: Case management of intersexed infants, 155) The medical community believes that female and male are the only “natural options� for the child, with the advancement in technology and progress of surgery creating the child into one of two genders is the only option. Parents are encouraged not to refer to the child as boy or girl, but baby. Some doctors go as far as telling the parents to tell loved ones they have had twins, a male and female. When the gender of the intersex infant is determined, they are encouraged to tell the loved ones that one of the children has died. Many doctors lead the parents to choose a gender based on if the child has a better chance as passing as a girl or boy. They also encourage the parents to treat that child as that gender stronger than parents with a non intersexed child. Not only do the children go through surgery they go through a life time of hormone treatments and go the process of understanding that they were intersex infants. There are many stages in surgery to “reassign� the gender and in many cases the gender the doctors turn the child into is wrong. There have been many cases in which an intersex child has grown up as one gender do to operations, yet have felt the opposite gender. Another big factor in this situation is the psychological toll it takes on the child. They are basically created into something that they have no say in and have to learn to be a person that they may or may not be able to be. The medical community defines the sex of children; they create norms and literally turn infants into either boy or girls. They believe that males could not live with micro penises or girls with large clitoris, because that goes against society. They believe that there are only two sexes and there is no room for ambiguity. The medical community does not take into account the well being of the child but instead performs surgery to correct the child to make the boy or girl. They never leave a child to grow up as an intersexed individual and pick a sex even if it might be the wrong sex which the child grows up and has no control over their lives.