Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Australia Moves Closer to Ending Harmful Intersex Surgeries

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The Intersex flag. The Australian Human Rights Commission issued a report today analyzing the persistent practice of medically unnecessary non-consensual surgeries on children born with variations in their sex characteristics. The commission urged authorities to protect children’s rights to informed consent, and to legally regulate the operations. Around the world since the 1950s, people born with variations in their sex characteristics, sometimes called “intersex,” have been subjected to harmful medically unnecessary “normalizing” surgeries. Surgeons popularized…

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