Behind the birth of 'intersex people': the ignorance of parents is destroying children's lives

Is the birth of intersex people a "mistake" in itself?

It is said that tiger poison does not eat offspring, however, a baby born less than half a month was "murdered" by his biological father three times in a row by brutal means , just because he was "intersex".

After being arrested, the baby's father, Zhang Fei (pseudonym), said that his heart was actually very tangled, and he wanted the child to die, but also wanted the child to survive.

On the one hand, he worries that his son will not be able to hold his head up in front of others when he grows up; on the other hand, he knows that his poor family cannot afford his son's surgery.

In the end, he chose to poison the child, not only wanting to end his own pain, but also unbearable for the child to suffer .

Some people are born "intersex" and they don't have a choice. But there are also people who passively become "intersex people". They obviously do nothing, but they are also disgusted and despised by their biological parents.

1. Intersex people who are artificially "manufactured"

These tragedies actually originate from a drug, which also profoundly reflects the traditional concept of patriarchal preference among some people. The sixth floor of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department once shared a real case:

A patient has been married for many years and has not conceived. The strange thing is that after the examination, all the indicators of the body are found to be normal, and the possibility of infertility is very small. Therefore, the doctor suggested that she bring the other half to the hospital for examination, saying that it may also be the man's problem.

Unexpectedly, the patient said: "My husband is not a man at all, he will have menstruation! Every once in a while, he will bleed below , exactly the same as menstruation. Later, I checked a lot of information on the Internet, and I suspected it was my mother-in-law. When I was pregnant with him, I ate fetal rebirth pills, and when I was born, I raised it as a boy."

The doctor found it ridiculous, but in fact this kind of thing is not uncommon.

Some parents are serious about sons and daughters, and they will take abortion pills during pregnancy, which causes the private parts of the fetus to grow into the private parts of men, but there is no male fertility .

It is this small reincarnation pill that has made many babies of normal gender become intersex because of their parents' selfish desires.

"Transfer Pill", also known as "Birth-changing pill", is a "magic drug" that claims to be able to change the gender of the fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman. What will be the result after using it?

• According to media reports, a woman in Henan ate a pregnancy pill bought by her mother-in-law when she was 5 months pregnant, and finally gave birth to a baby who could not distinguish between male and female;
• A doctor in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province treated a 4-year-old intersex child. It was learned that the child's mother had taken abortion pills when she was pregnant.

2. Can the so-called "rebirth pill" really reverse gender?

Birth-changing pills, birth-changing pills... Can it really turn a girl into a boy and reverse the gender as in the legend? In fact, as long as you think about it, you can know that this is impossible.

Some rebirth pills are ordinary vitamin sugar pills, which have no effect on the human body. But some rebirth pills can change a person's fate.

The so-called rebirth pills containing active ingredients are actually murderous drugs that contain a lot of male hormones . Women who take too much androgen during pregnancy directly increase the risk of miscarriage. Even if there is no miscarriage, it is easy to cause the fetus to have hermaphroditism and become intersex.

Scientifically speaking, the sex of the fetus is determined at the moment of fusion of the sperm and the egg, and it is determined by the sperm.

If the fetus itself is a girl, ovaries, uterus, and vagina will naturally grow. Although a lot of male hormones are used, girls will grow male-like reproductive organs, but they only look like boys, but they are actually girls . Therefore, this is just a selfish and vicious behavior, and it is a manifestation of extreme irresponsibility.

It has been reported in the literature that from 1994 to 2016, Fuyang City People's Hospital treated a total of 43 patients with XX androgen excess dysplasia, of which 36 patients had mothers who had taken androgen drugs in the first trimester .

Not to mention that there is no difference between having a boy and a girl, just in terms of probability, having a boy or a girl is not something that can be decided by a small pill , but a matter of absolute probability.

In the process of sperm formation, germ cell meiosis determines the probability of forming X chromosome-carrying and Y-chromosome-carrying sperm both 50% and 50% of the time. In short, the probability of having a boy or a girl is 50% .

3. Is the existence of intersex people "wrong"?

In the eyes of some people, intersex people are "not male or female", "intersex"...their birth seems to be a "mistake".

In medicine, intersex people can be divided into true hermaphroditism and pseudohermaphroditism .

True hermaphroditic intersex people have gonadal genitalia and sexual characteristics with male and female characteristics, and external genitalia can be female, male, or a mixture of the two.

Intersex people with pseudohermaphroditism, although they have testicular tissue, sex chromosomes are XY, but sex chromatin is negative, and they develop different degrees of female internal and external reproductive organs.

There are many causes of hermaphroditism, including chromosomal sex abnormalities, gender abnormalities, suffering from adrenal disease or pituitary tumors, external genitalia, natural and social environment and other influences, as well as maternal intake of a lot of male hormones during pregnancy.

Is the existence of intersex people a "mistake"? This is a false proposition, no one's existence should not be .

Relevant statistics show that the ratio of normal-sex people to intersex people is 4500:1, which is actually quite a lot. However, we are all human, and there is essentially no difference. Respecting transgender people's choice of gender or staying intersex is what we have to do with intersex people.

For congenital intersex people, is there any way to reduce the probability of birth?

• Close relatives should not marry, otherwise it is likely to cause abnormal sex chromosome differentiation, resulting in fetal hermaphroditism;
• Carry out pre-marital examinations to achieve eugenics and postnatal care;
• Scientific obstetric examination is beneficial to avoid many genetic diseases and fetal malformations;
• Postpartum observation, after the baby is born, pay more attention to observe the development and changes of the baby's external genitalia, and seek medical examination in time if any abnormality is found.

Respecting others is also respecting yourself, and loving others is also loving yourself. In this world, we are all the most special and the most ordinary. For intersex people, we should give more understanding, tolerance and support, without prejudice, let alone discrimination and ridicule.

References

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[3] "I have both uterus and ovaries, as well as testicles and penis...｜A monologue of an intersex person". Eleventh Clinic. 2022-01-04

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