# Sex reassignment at birth
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-reassignment-at-birth/64955
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [May 10, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-reassignment-at-birth/64955 "2001-05-10T03:18:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-reassignment-at-birth/64955/1 "2001-05-10T03:18:43Z")
Doctors recommend reassignment of sex organs for ambiguous genitals. If you had a micropenis, or a enlarged clitoris you might have got it cut of, to remove ambiguity.
Now needless to say I am against this, but I question is anyone really for this at all? I don’t see many guys who would want to live as a female because their dick is small, or any women who would want to possibly lose sensitivity because theirs is “a bit too big”
A few links
[http://www.ukia.co.uk/diamond/ped\_eth.htm](http://www.ukia.co.uk/diamond/ped_eth.htm)
[http://www.afn.org/~sfcommed/mdfnl.htm](http://www.afn.org/~sfcommed/mdfnl.htm)
[http://www.findarticles.com/cf\_0/m1511/1\_21/58398807/p1/article.jhtml](http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/1_21/58398807/p1/article.jhtml)
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-reassignment-at-birth/64955/2 "2001-05-10T03:37:07Z")
Well, I think it’s daft, but I’ve about as much influence on the AMA as I do on the KKK, which is to say, none.
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### Author:  [@Xerxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xerxes)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2001, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-reassignment-at-birth/64955/3 "2001-05-10T09:49:38Z")
I listened to a segment on UK’s Radio 4 this morning on this very topic (Sue McGregor [sub]bless her[/sub] having to say the word _genitalia_ about 4 times made my day).
She interviewed an ‘intersex’ woman from the US who belonged to an organisation championing the cause of **not** intervening surgically until the child/teenager/adult was old enough to make his/her own decisions. The other chap was a UK doctor who seemed to be saying that current medical thinking was to assign a gender by the best means possible, but not necessarily force the gender by surgery (again, until later).
What I found stunning was the fact that apparently 1 in 2000 children born are to some degree intersex. A higher incidence than I would have ever thought possible.