Indian Girls Forced into Inhumane Sex Changes
By wchung | 19 May, 2026

A nearly manic preference for sons among Indians is leading to hundreds of inhumane sex change operations on young girls, reported the Telegraph Tuesday.

Three hundred girls were forced into sex change operations by parents who paid doctors in Indore, Madhya Pradesh almost $3,200 for each operation.

The doctors insist that only girls with genital abnormalities or children with both male and female sexual characteristics were subject to operations. However, parents and doctors are suspected of falsifying children’s conditions to justify turning girls into boys.

Genitoplasty can have a negative social and psychological impact on the child because implanted organs don’t produce hormones, leading to infertility and impotency, according to Dr V P Goswami, the president of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics in Indore,

“The more educated and rich you are, the more there is killing of girls,” said Ranjana Kumari, India’s leading campaigner against female feticide. “People don’t want to share their property or invest in girls’ education or pay dowries. It is the greedy middle classes running after money.”

India’s gender imbalance is already the world’s worst, with 7 million more boys than girls under the age of 6. This growing “social madness” has become the target of activists seeking more respect for the rights of women and children.