India's 'shocking' child sex-change epidemic - The Week:
"India is known for preferring sons over daughters, most famously (and troublingly) through the demographics-distorting practice of gender-based selective abortion. Now, hundreds of daughters age 1 to 5 are reportedly being 'converted' into boys through a sex-change procedure known as genitoplasty, which involves fashioning a penis out of female sex organs, then pumping the child full of male hormones. This 'shocking, unprecedented trend, catering to the fetish for a son,' is drawing parents from all over the nation to the central Indian city of Indore, the Hindustan Times reports. Ranjana Kumari, a top campaigner against aborting girls, blames 'social madness' and greed. 'People don't want to share their property or invest in girls' education or pay dowries,' she says. 'It's the greedy middle classes running after money.' But there's no excuse for forcing your child to have a sex change... right?"
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