The HT claim that its controversial report did not say anywhere that perfectly healthy girls were being surgically converted into boys is unacceptable. The headline and the use of phrases such as ‘Son Fetish' and ‘Gender Bender,' not to mention the accompanying graphic, are explicitly misleading. More worrisome is the newspaper's claim that the media are not medical experts.
The HT should have been more careful with facts and aware of medical possibilities before setting out with the lofty intent of creating “public debate about the need for monitoring or legislation.” An impossibility has been paraded.
By Viswanath V
Published: The Hindu
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