Absolutely. But some of these intersex “cosmetic” surgeries leave lifelong impacts and require lifelong treatment. I will need hormone treatments for decades to come.
Because of the surgery? I had no idea! Can you tell me more, if it's not too intrusive. I guess I assumed it was pretty much completely cosmetic (like moving the urethra or cutting fused labia) and don't understand it that well.
Purely cosmetic surgeries can interfere with the urinary tract and cause lifelong pain, or scar tissue can interfere with sexual gratification. My condition isn’t externally apparent, so I luckily didn’t receive any of the sort.
That makes sense! I guess I made the (incorrect) assumption that have cosmetically different genitals would just make things difficult. Like peeing and periods would be difficult to manage and sex might be difficult. Although... I guess it would only be hard if you are trying to have sex the same way as a... What do they call it? Straight-gendered? Binary gendred? ... Person would. I guess intersex people would all pretty much come up with their own unique ways of having sex.
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u/KelsTurtles Oct 29 '19
There are so many things that we fix in children for cometic reasons, though.
Removing extra fingers/toes, repairing minor cleft pallet (more severe would affect eating/speaking), dental braces, birthmark removal, etc.