CA SCR110

Calls upon health profession stakeholders to develop policies ensuring individualized, multidisciplinary care for children born with variations in sex characteristics that respects patient participation in medical decisions.

Opposes medically unnecessary surgical procedures on intersex children too young to participate in decision-making, including surgeries on gonads, genitals, or internal sex organs that carry meaningful risk of harm and can be safely deferred.

Recognizes that most infants born with sex characteristic variations are healthy and may not require immediate medical intervention related to their physical sex characteristics.

Documents historical practice of irreversible surgeries performed on intersex infants since the 1950s without medical justification, citing evidence of severe psychological and physiological harms including chronic pain, incontinence, loss of sexual function, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Affirms that intersex children should be free to choose whether to undergo life-altering surgeries and are part of California's diversity to be celebrated rather than corrected.