Malta has become the first nation to ban the normalization surgery and genital mutilation of intersex babies, giving a boost to the LGBT rights movement. The surgery is performed on intersex babies to make them 'belong' to a particular sex and is called normalization as if being intersex is abnormal. It takes away the right of an individual as to what they want to do with their body. Further, the new law has given the right of gender self determination to the individual. The law passed makes it unlawful to perform any kind of surgery on an infant. A surgery can be performed only on a consenting individual and not on an infant child. It also makes involuntary sterilization as unlawful.
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