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Top 10 Myths

  • MYTH #10: Intersex is extremely rare
  • MYTH #9: Only true hermaphrodites are really intersexed.
  • Myth #8: If you're transsexed, then you are intersexed.
  • Myth #7: ISNA advocates doing nothing and raising intersexed babies in a third gender
  • MYTH #6: You can't raise an intersexed child as a boy or girl without surgery.
  • MYTH #5: Surgery makes normal looking genitals.
  • MYTH #4: Once surgery is better, we won t have to worry about intersex
  • MYTH #3: Corrective cosmetic surgeries make parents forget their kid was born different
  • MYTH #2: John Money is responsible for all of the troubles that have befallen intersexed people
  • MYTH #1: My little contribution to ISNA can't possibly make a difference.

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Top 10 Myths

The Top Ten Myths was originally published in the February 2001 issue of ISNA News.

  • MYTH #10: Intersex is extremely rare
  • MYTH #9: Only true hermaphrodites are really intersexed.
  • Myth #8: If you're transsexed, then you are intersexed.
  • Myth #7: ISNA advocates doing nothing and raising intersexed babies in a third gender
  • MYTH #6: You can't raise an intersexed child as a boy or girl without surgery.
  • MYTH #5: Surgery makes normal looking genitals.
  • MYTH #4: Once surgery is better, we won t have to worry about intersex
  • MYTH #3: Corrective cosmetic surgeries make parents forget their kid was born different
  • MYTH #2: John Money is responsible for all of the troubles that have befallen intersexed people
  • MYTH #1: My little contribution to ISNA can't possibly make a difference.
 
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