Intersex children

Welcoming the State Party’s commitment to protecting intersex children from violence and harmful practices, but concerned about persisting cases of medically unnecessary and irreversible surgery and other treatment on intersex children without their informed consent and about the lack of redress and compensation in such cases, the Committee recommends that the State Party:

(a) Explicitly prohibit and adequately sanction the performance of involuntary, deferrable medical or surgical treatment on intersex children, and provide reparations to children who have received unnecessary treatment, including by extending the statute of limitations

(b) Provide social, medical and psychological services, as well as adequate counselling, peer support and reparations, to the families of intersex children

(c) 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