So yes, I respect parents who are advocating to preserve choices and options for their children who are intersex just as I respect parents who are advocating to preserve choices and options for their children who are transgender.
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Replying to @CourtneyKRoweMD @CourtneyKRowe and
They aren't advocating to preserve choices for their child, they are preserving their own right to make choices FOR their child. Hence the Parent's Rights garbage spewing from CARES. Rosie has her options preserved since she can still choose no surgery. Can they all say that?
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As a parent, you also made a choice for your child -- choosing surgery and choosing no surgery are both choices. I am sure you did it with thought, care, consideration, research and a great deal of love. Other parents are asking for the opportunity to do the same.
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Replying to @CourtneyKRoweMD @CourtneyKRowe and
I didn't make a choice, there was no choice to make. Rosie had no medically necessary reason to have a surgery, so we simply didn't have one. That's not a "choice". My non-CAH son Silas also didn't have genital surgery, but I wouldn't call that a choice.
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Sure it’s a choice! Let’s say you were choosing no circumcision for example. That means you’re choosing higher risk of UTI, higher HIV and HPV transmission, higher penile Ca risk. A very reasonable compromise for some families. But still a choice you make on behalf of your child.
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Replying to @CourtneyKRoweMD @CourtneyKRowe and
It’s always very sad when doctors exaggerate the benefits of Circumcision. Really makes sense why little progress has been made in the USA to protect children from irreversible genital alteration, including for intersex kids! Shocking stuff
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Replying to @iamscottee @erlohman and
The full circ conversation is too long for twitter. Pros / cons complex. But any choice in health care is deciding the pros outweigh the cons. Same as deciding for / against Tylenol or abx or ear tube or cleft palate. Parents put a lot of thought & care into decisions.
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Replying to @CourtneyKRoweMD @CourtneyKRowe and
"Too long for twitter"? No, it's that you indefensibly ignore
#bioethics when you say prevention of non-existent conditions that don't occur before the age of consent (STDs, cancer) or are easily treated non-surgically (UTIs) can justify surgery on a boy w/out his consent.#i21 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @CourtneyKRowe and
@AmerAcadPeds#bioethics committee says here that in lieu of a child's own informed consent, "parents ... provide informed permission for diagnosis and treatment of children." Elective child#circumcision isn't diagnosis or treatment & so is unethical#i2 https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/95/2/314.full.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @cooney21 @CourtneyKRowe and
A valid informed consent would cover foreskin functions and excising some of the most sensitive areas including primary sensors and immune system, 100% scarring of the glans.
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That's exactly why, for over a century, the US medical establishment has insisted on forcing #circumcision on the youngest of children. Nearly all informed men would refuse - vehemently. They have firsthand knowledge of foreskin functions & sensitivity. #i2 #PutKids1st #MedEd
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