Early operations and “Without vital necessity” on children whose sex at birth is difficult to determine are “Illegal” is to be avoided, considers a report from the Jean-Jaurès Foundation published Friday June 26.
Report authors regret that surgical procedures “Early”, “Without free and informed consent” and “Without vital necessity” on intersex children always take place in France, “Despite a prohibition in principle” .
Absence of sanctions for “mutilating” operations
“The absence of real sanctions, the lack of compensation for the victims as well as the difficulty for many of them to access their medical files are all indications that the subject is still taboo”, underline Flora Bolter, co-director of the LGBT + Observatory of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Anne-Lise Savart, project manager at the Interministerial Delegation to Combat Racism, Antisemitism and Anti-LGBT Hate (Dilcrah) .
These operations Mutilating should no longer be practiced “Under penalty of different sanctions”, the authors ask, as is the case in Malta, Portugal and a state in India.
The right to physical and sexual integrity is a “fundamental” right
“The right to physical and sexual integrity is not a question of medicine, but a question of fundamental rights”, says their study, and it takes “To clarify, by an interpretative text” this situation.
In November, the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) issued a similar opinion, recommending that these operations be avoided “Unless immediate medical necessity And asked to wait until the person concerned could “Be associated” at “Therapeutic choice”.
Before that, deputies voted in October in favor of better care for intersex children – 0.05% to 1.7% of births, according to the estimates and criteria used – in the four reference centers in France , but without prohibiting operations.
The term « intersexes » , which covers very different situations, refers to people who have anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal characteristics which are not strictly male or female.
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