Curious Findings...

During the course of our controversial viral marketing campaign, I have played about a dozen scenarios in my head. I wonder if it will be successful and catch on. I wonder what the exact responses will be and from whom they will come from. I wonder what sort of feelings we will elicit. I wonder if we will offend anyone. I wonder if anyone will find the attention brought to the issue of child gender reassignment as a positive contribution. I did some browsing and found this video on YouTube. There are some points in this outdated video that I found quite interesting.



(mind you the video does appear biased) First of all, the mere fact that castration occurred without consent of a parent is absolutely astonishing. The reporter mentions that the family is "suing"--- I was incredibly surprised that a much more forceful term was not used, like up to the neck in malpractice law suits. Which on perhaps a more humanistic level, I wonder what possessed this doctor to perform an illegal surgery. I wonder if he felt that he was in the medical right or if he felt some form of a moral obligation my some set of beliefs to do this. Either way, what he did WAS illegal. When I came across this video, I noticed it was entitled "Surgical Abuse of Intersex Child." I never considered the fact that gender reassignment could be abused. I further found in my research that some of the associations that create awareness for intersexuality are severely opposed to infant gender reassignment. Some of these surgeries are results of not only ambiguous genitalia, but also botched circumsion. Now that I have seen some of the responses from different spectrums of people involved, I keep their point of view into consideration while creating our viral campaign.