Yes, ‘Gender-Affirming Surgery’ on Minors Is Mutilation—and Yes, It’s Child Abuse

A transgender individual shows a testosterone ampoule at a hospital in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 8, 2020. Claudio Reyes/AFP via Getty Images

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If a surgeon uses her scalpel to cut into and permanently alter the reproductive organs of a young girl in the name of Third World religious and cultural traditions, we call it “female genital mutilation.”