A couple form South Carolina is suing the state’s Department of Social Services, a hospital, a medical school and individual hospital employees, alleging that an unnecessary genital removal surgery violated their intersex child’s constitutional rights.
The couple says that their child is now 8 years old and chooses to identify as a boy, despite doctors deciding that the child should physically be a girl at 16 months old. The couple says that they chose to adopt the child, who was in state custody at the time of adoption, with knowledge of the intersex condition.
“The first thought that I had was, let’s make sure they don’t do the surgery,” Pam Crawford said in an audio recording posted to YouTube.
“I was really sad that that decision had been made for him,” Crawford stated. “It’s become more and more difficult as his identity has become more clearly male. The idea that mutilation was done to him has become more and more real. There was no medical reason that this decision had to be made at that time.”
What to do if you Have Received an Unnecessary Surgery
The hospital that performed the child’s surgery committed medical malpractice, and South Carolina’s Social Services Department is responsible for gross negligence.
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