1 Parents are still trying to correct their intersex kids after birth with surgeries and hormones today. And the American gov't is known for intervening when they find a child is intersex. Doctors make up a medical conditions in order to operate on the kid, or they lie about what it means to be intersex in order to alter the kid's genitals. If the parents refuse to operate, the gov't threatens to take away the child and put them through surgery anyway.