The Kerala High Court has directed the State government to issue within three months an order regulating sex selective surgeries on intersex infants and children.
Justice V.G. Arun also ordered that until the regulation was put in place, sex selective surgery shall be permitted only based on the opinion of a State-level multidisciplinary committee that the surgery was essential to save the life of such child/infant.
The court passed the directives recently while disposing of a writ petition filed by the parents of a child born with ambiguous genitalia (congenital adrinal hyperplasia) seeking permission of the court to conduct a genital reconstructive surgery on the child.
