Dr. Marc Breedlove

So in the old days, once this got recognized, it was standard procedure to tell the parents, oh, this is an emergency.

We need to do cosmetic surgery.

We need to do surgery to make this little girl look like all the other little girls.

You know, sometimes the surgery was, you know, there could sometimes be successful or not.

Indeed, they knew how to make her look like other girls.

But many of those intersex folks, when they grew up, were pretty angry.

that someone had done this surgery on them that wasn't needed medically, right?

They were already taking care of the problem with the exogenous adrenal steroids.

And so who asked you to deal with my, you know, to do surgery on my clitoris?

In some cases, the tip of the clitoris was missing.

And so these women grew up and were anorgasmic because they couldn't get

stimulation that they normally would have had.

These days, there's much more, thanks to the activists like Cheryl Chase and others who started getting the pediatrician's attention, hey, you need to think about that.

You're doing elective surgery

on an infant who cannot possibly have informed consent.

And so these days, there's more of a wait-and-see attitude, which I think is absolutely... So wait till they're grown up and ask them then if they want to have surgery.

And my guess is most will say no.

I think that's been the pattern so far.

So these are females who are exposed to more testosterone than other females.

So does that mean that they're going to be attracted to women when they grow up?