The condition of being born with both sexual organs has been around for a long time. Over the past few years, these individuals born with both sexes lived normal lives until science began to evolve and decide what is socially acceptable and what is not. Not so long ago, such a condition was brought to public attention by scientists trying to determine sexual identity. As medicine became more and more modern, surgical procedures began to determine the sexuality of many individuals born with both sex organs. Although these procedures have been very successful, sometimes these gender-selected children grow up under constant pressure to be accepted into society as their assigned gender. The lives of these children called "hermaphrodites" are often characterized by societal acceptance and their own personal inclination toward the gender with which they feel most comfortable. Individuals born with both sexes should be left as they were born until they can make a decision for themselves and choose whether to become fully male or female, rather than letting a scientist determine what that is surgically or socially correct for that specific individual. In the long run when these children try to identify their true gender, they tend to suffer from psychological trauma. Doctors and scientists insisted on repairing every aspect of the human body. So much so that they perform surgical procedures which, in the long run, turn into big mistakes. When a child is born with both sexual organs, scientists invoke a state of emergency and exercise their authority in an attempt to “correct the errors of nature” (Fausto-Sterling, 37). But are there really repairs to be made? Imagine how traumatic it must be for these individuals to discover that ... middle of paper ...... I am capable of determining their gender, only the child will determine their sexual preference when they are old enough old to do it. decide which gender they feel most satisfied with. Surgical procedures take away the ability of these people to lead a normal life and decide on a gender. Works Cited Fallon, Jr., L. Fleming. “Hermaphroditism”. The Scabies Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders. Ed. Stacey L. Blachford. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Internet. March 26, 2014 Guterman, Lydia. “Why do doctors still perform genital surgery on infants?” Open Society Foundations (OSF). Np, January 30, 2012. Web. April 8, 2014. “New Guidelines for Treating “Intersex” Babies.” Msnbc.com. Np, February 18, 2005. Web. April 8, 2014. “The extermination of hermaphrodites in the “developed world”” Zwischengeschlecht.org. Np, August 31, 2011. Web. April 8. 2014.