Opinion In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal, 2024, Elliott

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/...e_code=1.qE0.p6-j.STaHvx7pZIgJ&smid=url-share

 

It should be illegal to operate on a person's genitals unless they consent, or it is medically necessary. This includes pelvic exams (not surgery but broadly similar), sterilization (which has been done non-consensually in the past), circumcision and other cosmetic genital surgeries, and "corrective" surgeries for intersex conditions. When not consensual, these are all medicalized, culturally sanctioned forms of sexual assault.