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Veida wrote:

Jbags wrote:But Thomas, by not choosing a gender, you are depriving the child of even the possibility of a normal upbringing and adulthood, or even having offspring themselves.

Now what could this possibly mean? Are you implying that the surgery somehow enables the children to have offspring later in life?

If so, you are misinformed: in fact it is the other way around - the surgery in some cases eliminates the possibility of having offspring later in life.

I am speaking in general terms, associated with the thought experiment in the OP, not about specific circumstances. As in my previous post my guiding principle is optimizing freedom for the child, and therefore of course I would not want to deny a child the option to have biological offspring, that is something very important in my mind.