A landmark legal case may finally put a stop to almost half a century of bizarre medical procedures in the United States, where children’s genitals have been surgically altered to fit a standardized definition of the proper sizes for penises and clitorises. South Carolina couple Mark and Pam Crawford adopted their son M.C. when he was 19 months old, after he had been the ward of the state for a few months. Before his adoption, M.C.’s doctors and social workers decided that the infant’s penis was too small or ambiguous, and determined that the best course of action was plastic …
