Child genital cutting and surgery: focus on ethics, law, anthropology, and intersex
This is the second part of a two-part special series on genital cutting and surgery affecting young people. While the first part emphasized broad questions of anthropology, medicine, ethics, politics, and law, with a particular focus on practices affecting persons with intersex traits. This second part puts the spotlight on genital modifications affecting those born, not with intersex traits, but with “endosex” traits: congenital sex characteristics deemed biologically normative for either females or males. And yet, as the articles in this collection make clear, even apparent biological normativity does not entail cultural acceptability.
Editors
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Brian D. Earp
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Jasmine Abdulcadir
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals of Geneva (UHG), Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lih-Mei Liao
Independent Practice, London, UK
