Clinical psychologist and sex therapist Dr Tiger Devore was born with indeterminate sex. He has severe hypospadias, an abnormality of the penis, which in its milder form can affect one in 250 men.

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Ultimately the sex chosen for an intersex baby is the one doctors and their family believe they will grow up to identify with best.

Dr Devore and Janet were both born at a time when parents went along with what the doctors said and surgery was seen as the first thing to do.

They have both had multiple operations. Dr Devore has had 20 surgeries, the first at three months old.

"In my view all the surgeries I suffered up to age 19 were unnecessary failures," he says.

"I lost a tremendous amount of feeling tissue that I would like to have."

Some people now believe that surgery should be left until the child can make the decision themselves.

"There are a lot of activists that describe infant surgery in one word - mutilation," explains Dr Devore.

"Unless there's a medical necessity to change the appearance of those genitals I don't think they should be cut on at all," he asserts.

"It's the kid's genitals, not the parents or the doctors and when they're young adults they are going to want them to work."

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