Many childr­en whose gender­s are uniden­tifiab­le at birth grow up bullie­d; correc­tive surger­y offers soluti­onLAHORE: Hussain is just seven, but already faces one of the most difficult decisions a person of any age could have to make. After an operation scheduled a few weeks from now, Hussain is likely to wake up from surgery as a girl. The doctors advised us to get the child medically examined and so we took her for a checkup and different tests. Medical experts said a variety of birth defects can make it difficult to determine the gender of some children, while parents tend to hide non-binary gender children, fearing shame and insult. BDF Chairman Ansar Javed said that hiding non-binary children causes problems for both, the parents and the children.

Source: The Express Tribune April 24, 2019 18:22 UTC