Normalizing surgeries on intersex infants amounts to torture, says new legal challenge, but ministers won’t commit to change

Both Justice Minister David Lametti's and Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger's offices avoided giving definitive statements of support one way or another when asked about EGALE Canada's recent court challenge.

Intersex people are those born with chromosomal, hormonal, or anatomical sex characteristics that differ from the norm.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

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BY ALICE CHEN

August 4, 2021

A recently launched court challenge could overturn laws that allow non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants, but while Justice Minister David Lametti has acknowledged concerns, government ministers were mum on where specifically they fall on this issue. On June 15, EGALE Canada, a national LGBT...

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