We have called on the ACT government to protect non-consenting infant boys from irreversible and usually medically unnecessary circumcision.

In a letter to Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his government’s health minister Rachel Stephen-Smith, the RSA welcomed the ACT’s new laws to protect the rights of intersex children from being subjected to medical surgeries without their consent.

In passing the Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Bill last month, Mr Barr told the ACT Legislative Assembly that his government believed it was a “fundamental principle” for people, including children, to be involved in decisions about treatments to their bodies.

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