Saras World

"Some Indian parents are said to be using sex reassignment surgery to turn their healthy daughters into sons because society prizes male children. According to the respected Hindustan Times newspaper the “shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son, is unfolding at conservative Indore’s well-known clinics and hospitals on children who are one to five years old”. India’s ratio of male to female births has long been a concern. Sons are considered a blessing and daughters a burden, as girls must be married off with a large dowry. While sex determination tests during pregnancy are illegal, campaigners against female foeticide say parents have sought other ways to ensure they have sons." – Read full article here. ( PDF )

Isn’t it a horror to read this? But that’s probably the power of money. You have enough of it, and you can go against all laws, conventions and human rights. A consenting surgeon, the greed for money most probably is his motivation, and here we are. I won’t write an endless article here, but I invite you to sincerely think about it. People with intersex condition fight for the right of self-determination of their sex and their gender. What about the rights of a healthy child, that has to suffer mutilation? What about those people who sincerly REQUEST an SRS and are refused it?