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Sex Change Operations Turn Little Girls into Boys: Indian Parents Think They’re Cheaper to Keep

In a stunning revelation reported in The Telegraph Monday, parents in India are allegedly paying £2,000 (around $3200) to have their young daughters undergo gender reassignment surgery in order to turn them into sons — all in the hopes of dodging the added expense of raising a girl. Indian culture favors males for their income earning potential and due to the fact that unlike females, they won’t cost their families unnecessary educational expenses and wedding dowries.

Currently, there are 7 million more boys than girls under age six in India and there’s clearly a reason for that. In a country where female foeticide (gender-based abortions) are commonplace, this new twist has many fearing children aren’t safe even after they are born. Madhya Pradesh state government is already investigating 300 cases in which girls have reportedly undergone genitoplasty.  The Telegraph goes on to explain:

The surgery, known as genitoplasty, fashions a penis from female organs, with the child being injected with male hormones to create a boy.

Dr V P Goswami, the president of the Indian Academy of Paediatrics in Indore, described the disclosures as shocking and warned parents that the procedure would leave their child impotent and infertile in adulthood.

“Genitoplasty is possible on a normal baby of both the sexes but later on these organs will not grow with the hormonal influence and this will lead to their infertility as well as their impotency. It is shocking news and we will be looking into it and taking corrective measures,” he said. “Parents have to consider the social as well as the psychological impact of such procedures on the child.”

Sex Change Operations Turn Little Girls into Boys: Indian Parents Think Theyre Cheaper to Keep

Ranjana Kumari, a human rights advocate who has been leading the campaign against female feoticide told The Telegraph these gender reassignments performed at such a tender age and without consent shed light on India’s increasing “social madness:”

She said she despaired that education had failed to stop the growing rejection of baby girls in India.

“People don‘t want to share their property or invest in girls’ education or pay dowries. It’s the greedy middle classes running after money. It is just so shocking and an outright violation of children’s rights.”

(H/T: The Telegraph)

Comments (119)

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  • Sr Newk
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:53am

    How about just cutting the dowry. Culture customs of paying a family of the male a dowry is way old and a heck of a lot better then messing with these young girls lives. The girls will always be girls no matter what you do physically to their bodies. When you think you have heard it all then something like this is brought out of the closet. I am glad this is out in the open. This is really serious and UN is doing nothing about it, yet the UN is in the process of creating regulations to force all of us to live on a low carbon diet. The UN is the biggest joke of all, this organization had to know this has been going on for some time now and keep quiet about it.

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:47am

    @ Erabin and trolltrainer: Sorry, ain‘t buyin’ it. The Indian society is built upon a caste system that PERMANENTLY keeps those who cannot get that great education you cited, at the bottom. You both are fools.

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  • Sicialian Eyeball
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:38am

    Imagine what goes on in the back room of the 7-11

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  • TomFerrari
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:34am

    This is disgusting.

    —
    Couldn’t stop these next few thoughts:

    Lego kids?

    Snapon kids?

    Snap on Snap Off
    Snap on, Snap off… The snappers.

    Wouldn‘t a ’strapon’ be cheaper?
    —
    Okay, I shouldn’t joke. This is evil, and evil is not funny.
    Sorry!
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    Seriously, though…

    San Francisco is worried about people (especially Jews) snipping off the TIP of boys skin?
    FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.
    And these people make their own children into freaks for money?

    All the while San Fran parades “Chaz” Bono in the streets? (They just televised ‘pride’ for HOURS on local tv here.) If you don’t know, ‘chaz’ is the poor lost soul that was born the daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono. ‘Chaz’ has had a lifelong string of public issues, culminating in a sex-change to become a ‘boy’.
    IMHO, ‘Chaz’ has repeatedly cried for parental attention, and this was just another such cry. What a poor lost soul.

    Pray for ‘Chaz’.

    Pray for these children and for their misguided parents.

    Perhaps there is a way we could adopt these girls BEFORE they become a financial burden on their parents? There are MANY families here who would love to have children, but cannot.

    ManBearPig may also support adoption, since it hedges against population growth.

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  • Mapache
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:33am

    Maybe may it could be a new job for Anthony Weiner….he could be a package counselor.

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  • hightide
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:31am

    Disgusting…

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  • bew0576
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:31am

    Dear Lord, this literally broke my heart. I can’t even imagine what this does to these girls mentally, this is a serious crime against humanity! How cruel of these parents and the bottom line is that money motivates all of this. The LOVE of money is the root of all EVIL!

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:26am

    Stories like this strengthen my low regard for women. Allowing this to be done to their daughters. Actually cheapening their own gender. My God how pathetic.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:24am

    ya know playing god will turn VERY bad for people.. there is onl.y one true GOD and he doesnt tend to like people to play him.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:24am

    GOOD LORD IN HEAVEN! I bet HE’s reconsidering the flood agreement.

    This is absolutely stunning in its level of depravity.

    Anyone over there have a brain cell??? STOP THE DAM n dowries for HEAVEN’s sake!

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:22am

    omg

     
  • catfanatic1979v1
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:17am

    Can we just call gender reassingment surgery something else? It doesn’t create a new gender for the person. It simply creates doll parts.

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    • Tammy_Beth
      Posted on June 29, 2011 at 5:31am

      can you mind your own d*a*m*n*e*d business when something doesn’t concern you?

      Tammy_Beth  
  • Danola
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:15am

    Hooray for Bollywood! They have their wingnuts, too!

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:06am

    And THIS is the culture I have to deal with when I need customer service on the phone? There’s a reason why India is a filthy, over-populated country: the people are IGNORANT and CRUEL. Deal with it!

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:17am

      “They” are actually not, but thanks for sharing your own ignorance by painting a whole damn country with one enormous brush.

      BTW, about that “ignorance” you like throwing around, you realize average education standards in India are pretty damn high? That’s why we even outsource tech jobs there: Low labor costs for highly skilled and educated people.

      http://trak.in/tags/business/2008/02/28/indian-school-education-standards-better-usa-china/

      If an Indian kid studies in a US school and returns to India, they often have to start a class lower because there’s such a large quality rift between the two systems..

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:32am

      No doubt, you speak of an entire culture as “ignorant” yet fail to see how many people from that culture have highly skilled jobs in your own country? It is getting harder and harder to find a western doctor in the US, they are all from India!

      Sure India has its problems, it is one of the last places in the world that I would wish to visit. But don’t for a second think your own crap smells any better. People are people, as you so adequately showed with your post. There is ignorance everywhere. No one culture has the market cornered here.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:44am

      They have highly skilled jobs in this country, not because they are good at them, I’ve worked with hundreds, none have been worth a crap, but sadly, they work for 1/3 less than a competent American and there are programs that give tax breaks to the employers so they can hire 3 or 4 of them to do the job of one and still come out on top.

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  • BeckFan1964
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:01am

    Soon the breeding will stop and all will be well.

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  • BetsyRoss1513
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:01am

    Aside from the fact that testosterone treatments cost money, that if the family cannot afford it, you have nothing more than a girl with a penis, why not just STOP PAYING A DOWRY!!!?? Why does that archaic social tidbit still thrive in a country where the average paycheck is $3/day?

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  • BetsyRoss1513
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:59am

    Are they also, then, aware of the cost of testosterone pills in order to keep the mammary glands from popping out at about age 13? What about that? Do they think that by adding a penis, this completely stops the process of being a girl? WTF are they thinking? How is lifelong testosterone injections CHEAPER?? Lol.. DAAAAAA…

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  • ISeeDanger.com
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:55am

    Worked for Rachel Maddow…

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:53am

    Considering the millions of girls abort by societies favoring a son, this seems only slightly less barbaric.
    Come on ladies, you must protect your reproductive rights to kill fellow women. Right N.O.W.?

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  • Lee_in_PA
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:51am

    Aside from what will they do when there are no more girls to make babies, what will they do with all those men when their ‘inner selves’ start to develop? THIS is MESSED UP.

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  • Dabldo
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:46am

    How sad. Probably don’t realise how many more problems they are causing. And if they do, they don’t care. Women are under valued there. Some “traditions” should be tossed when they cause too much suffering.

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    • Tammy_Beth
      Posted on June 29, 2011 at 5:27am

      I wish we could apply that principle beyond the borders of India while we are talking.

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  • Bobby P
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:42am

    So she got an “addadictomy”

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  • Shane the Golden
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:41am

    In a culture where the men out number the women by 7 million…. what could go wrong? In India this is only a small percent, one billion divided by 7 million, but still. How creepy is this?
    Just Saying

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  • holy ghostbuster
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:40am

    That’s civilized and rational??? Did those bozos ever wonder what will happen when they run out of girls?

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:08am

      It is MORE civilized and rational than simply killing them, at least.

      Lack of girls is actually a large problem in China and will become one in India. It’s the fault of a society in which you can go bankrupt from paying for a dowry.

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    • booger71
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:08am

      the fault of a society in which you can go bankrupt from paying for a dowry.”

      Go broke having to give a couple of goats to the groom’s family?

      booger71  
  • RockstarRepublic
    Posted on June 28, 2011 at 6:39am

    “gender reassignment surgery”, cute fluffly little naming convention.

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:25am

      .
      C’mon man..Glueing a strap-on to your daughter is not going to keep her from complaining about everything or as I call it BP&M. (BitchPiss&Moan).

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:37am

      “it’s the greedy middle class running after money”

      The motive is not much different than the DNC promoting class warfare here in the states to garner votes.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:43am

      KILL the parents!! My God this is an obamaNation to the eyes of any sane person!!!!

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    • V-Forge
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:45am

      When you do not value your children, they certainly will not value you. Welcome to our twisted world where children are no more than beloved pets that we can alter like livestock. They care so much about social status that they would mutilate a child or kill them. What do you expect from people that think god is an 800 pound laughing fat man or that you have a god for every occasion or that your place in life is decided by your social status at birth. The caste system was created by powerful men as an excuse to keep people down and make them accept it. The world is just a crazy place. These people have forgotten love of their children and decided love of property and status is more important. With America it is the same way but it is more about stuff. Social status is secondary but growing. Some of us still have morality and common sense.

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    • frodis
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 7:56am

      You know what this means? The progressive liberal parents here in America will ask their kids at age 4 what gender they prefer and go along with the process. I mean there trying to eliminate he and she, urge transgenderism, all this at a young confusing age for a child. India you have issues. Just hope the weirdos here don’t follow suit. Weather you like it or not God dealt you a hand so you must play it.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:16am

      Way to go India, excellent how you force homosexuallity on a child … This whole world is FU**ing crazy !!!

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    • anOpinion
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:08am

      Unbelievably sickening. How could anyone even consider doing that to their own child.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:17am

      May their parents burn in Hell.

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    • Alfredo2131
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:48am

      The Male (Adam) represents: Leftbrain = Conscious Mind: External Power (provider: warrior, farmer, builder, etc.). The Female (Eve) represents: Rightbrain = Subconcious Mind: Internal Power (external & internal caretaker: food, clothing, home, children, etc.)
      Since civilization began, and with few exceptions, men were the rulers (external power). Women were cast in a supporting role for the men (internal power). Pick a country/nation/tribe/etc., anywhere on this Earth, check out its history; its’ origins and belief systems. Again, with few exceptions, men ruled externally, women internally. And all through history men had power over women. India’s is external: Men Rule.

      Why? Was it that men, being the physically stronger, could force women to submit to their needs? Did early ****’s discover (or was it ingrained in them?) that, in nature, the stronger male-creatures ruled the weaker female-creatures? Did they also observe that it was mainly the male-creatures who hunted for food, and brought it to the area (home) where the female-creatures (as like the ****-Females) took care of the young she had given birth to?

      Timewise, the Genus ****, from erectus to sapiens, in my opinion, was far too short on the evolutionary scale to account for the rapid progression of social structures, as well as the advances in tools and materials, etc. I beleive, it was in the ‘Sapien’ line that “God” intervened, created the “Adam” and taught him civilization.

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    • HogansHero
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:58am

      Sounds like John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, dream world. So if you find this repulsive, read up on John Holdren. Your stomach will really turn. What is happening in India is absolutely despicable and these parents are committing the most vile form of child abuse. Many though have similar dreams for our nation.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:18am

      Technical question: If he(she) grows up and likes boys because she is really a girl, aren’t they going to kill him for being gay? Or are they more tolerant of that in India? They should have neutered these parents!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:26am

      What do you expect from a people that worships cows?
      That is so sick I don’t even know what to say……………………..

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    • ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 11:58am

      CEMERIUS, they give you access to a computer at the mental hospital you’re in?

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    • Cato Americanus
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:54pm

      My god man… just when I thought humanity couldn’t find a new low to sink to. Absolutely revolting. Don’t they realize that this is pretty much functionally equiavalent to sterilizing their own kids?

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:42pm

      ‘gender reassignment surgery” Hey brainiacs no matter how exciting and nice you want to make it sound, it is STILL: SEX CHANGE OPERATION. Too bad y’all are not smart enough to know that.
      Regarding this story, something like this going on means one of two things; they are either liberal wackos or they don’t know God. Of course the liberal wackos don’t know God either because if they did there is no way that they could ever do what they do or make the laws that go against God. So it could be the same thing for them over there.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 9:26pm

      Initially the very thought of this made me feel sick, then all of a sudden I realized what our country is doing killing multitudes of babies each year might be along the same lines. Is there much difference killing babies or changing the sex so they can at least live? OK, both are sick, killing is worse.

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