After a years-long advocacy campaign waged by activists, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has become the first hospital in the nation to apologize for performing cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex infants.
In a statement posted [recently] to its blog, the hospital said it understood its “approach was harmful and wrong” — a reference to surgery to make genitalia appear more typically male or female.
Major Children’s Hospital Apologizes for Performing Cosmetic Genital Surgeries on Intersex Infants
