Behavior; If Biology Is Destiny, When Shouldn't It Be?

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Health & Fitness | May 27, 2003, Tuesday
BEHAVIOR; If Biology Is Destiny, When Shouldn't It Be?

By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. (NYT) 937 words
Late Edition - Final , Section F , Page 6 , Column 1

LEAD PARAGRAPH - What would you do if your baby was born intersex, with sex organs and external genitalia not clearly male or female? How would you choose whether to bring up your child as a boy or a girl and decide whether doctors should perform corrective genital surgery?

A series of new studies and a book, ''Intersex and Identity'' (Rutgers University Press, 2003), seek to provide the answers to these questions. Yet despite this research, the ultimate choices may have less to do with a child's medical condition than with the hospital selected for childbirth. If this sounds like an anomaly in an era of evidence-based medicine, you are right.

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