The document discusses several key issues faced by parents of intersex children and intersex individuals themselves: - Parents experience shock, grief, and confusion when learning their child is intersex and look to doctors for guidance, though doctors' recommendations often change over time. - As a baby's sex is uncertain, the baby seems "sub-human" without a clear sex assigned. Parents struggle with whether to focus on genitals, chromosomes, or hormones in deciding a sex. - Surgery is often recommended to assign a sex, but this can lead to incongruence later in life if a person's gender identity does not match their assigned sex. Many intersex individuals are not supportive of early surgeries