Controversy
See also: Intersex surgery#Controversies and unsettled questionsThe goals of surgery, outlined at the beginning of this article have not changed, but some types of surgery have been discontinued. The primary ongoing controversy surrounds timing of feminizing surgery for virilized girls with CAH.
Although surgical sex reassignments (to female) of XY males with unambiguous micropenis or penile injury had been dwindling in the 1990s, few if any have been done since. Accounts of spontaneous self-reassignment since then have also reduced the reassignment to female of several other forms of XY ambiguity and malformation (especially the more intermediate forms of androgen insensitivity syndrome and idiopathic undervirilization, and non-hormonal birth defects such as cloacal exstrophy).
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