Amid transgender care bans, exceptions made for surgery on intersex children – By Kiara Alfonseca and Mary Kekatos (ABC News) / July 18, 2023
Intersex people don’t fit into the traditional male and female binary.
When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall’s male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy.
He says his late mother agreed to the surgery and treatment, but Wall adds that his mother picked the wrong gender for him.
“Receiving my medical records and really learning about what happened to me without my thorough informed consent, I think, made me really angry,” Wall, who is now 44, told ABC News.
Wall was born intersex, which encompasses a group of people with genitals, chromosomes, hormones or reproductive organs that are neither clearly male nor female at birth.
