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Political Factoid
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's
Hospital of Chicago publicly
apologized Thursday for
performing cosmetic genital
surgeries* on intersex** infants
and pledged to end the
practice.
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e.g., feminising surgery for
ambiguous genitalia
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Intersex is a general term used for
a variety of conditions in which a
person is born with a reproductive or
sexual anatomy that doesn't seem to
fit the typical definitions of female or
male (e.g., an internal and external mis-match).
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