# Slate documents changes in medical management of intersex

Unless they're born in Texas, notes Slate journalist Claudia Kolker, "the great majority of ambiguous-looking babies will still be 'normalized' with radical, irrevocable surgery in their first year of life. But the anecdotal and scientific evidence is making it increasingly clear that this approach, which once seemed obvious, is not in every child's best interest."

Read Kolker's article The Cutting Edge at Slate.

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