Gender perspectives on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
or punishment 2016, para. 50
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In many States, children born with atypical sex characteristics are often subject to irreversible sex assignment, involuntary sterilization and genital normalizing surgery, which are performed without their informed consent or that of their parents, leaving them with permanent, irreversible infertility, causing severe mental suffering and contributing to stigmatization. In some cases, taboo and stigma lead to the killing of intersex infants.
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Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment