Intersex children

The Committee welcomes the State Party’s commitment to protect intersex children from violence and harmful practices, concerned about persisting cases of medically unnecessary and irreversible surgery and other treatment on intersex children without their informed consent, and the lack of redress and compensation in such cases, but recommends that the State Party explicitly prohibit and adequately sanction the performance of involuntary, deferrable medical or surgical treatment on intersex children, and provide reparations for children who received unnecessary treatment, including by extending the statute of limitations.

The Committee recommends that the State Party provide social, medical and psychological services, as well as adequate counselling, peer support and reparations, to families with intersex children.

The Committee recommends that the State Party systematically collect data with a view to understanding the extent of these harmful practices so that children at risk can be more easily identified and their abuse prevented.