The following is a cut and paste from a report by the city of San Francisco Human Rights Commission. The report was approved on January 18 and is currently undergoing some grammatical editing at the request of the commission. It should be released in it's final edit any day and will be available online at the website of SFGov.For those not familiar, Dr. Baskin is the chief of pediatric urology at UCSF.
In his testimony to the commission, he stated that UCSF does "maybe one surgery a year" when questioned about the figure of 40 given to the investigators by one of his colleagues.
Further investigation by the commission staff led to the hospital releasing actual figures (I guess this information is available from hospitals that get public funding--I didn't know that beforehand) which contrasted greatly to Baskin's testimony and the previous information supplied by his colleague.
Here is the cut and paste from the report:
[Dr. Baskin reported to the Commission that normally UCSF performs one "intersex" surgery annually. He also indicated that clitoral surgeries are no longer performed at UCSF. The Commission requested information from UCSF regarding the number of genital surgeries performed each year at their facility. They provided different figures than those given by Dr. Baskin, as seen below.]
SURGERY STATISTICS FROM UCSF 2000 THROUGH 2003
UCSF provided the following information in response to requests regarding the number of genital surgeries performed each year at their San Francisco facilities:
Number of Clitoral/Vaginal/ Vulvar surgeries:
2000 5 surgeries (ages 1 day to 13 years 3 were under 14 months of age)
2001 7 surgeries (ages 1 day to one year)
2002 6 surgeries (ages 3 to 13 years 3 were under 4 years of age)
2003 7 surgeries (ages 3 months to 16 years 5 were under 2 years of age)
(Diagnoses: Congenital Anomaly of Cervix/Vagina [7]; Cervix/Female Genital Anomaly [5]; Andrenogenital Disorders [7]; Indeterminate Sex/Pseudohermaphoditism [4] Ano-moly of labia [1]; Hypertrophy of labia [1])
Total: 25 clitoral, vaginal, and/or vulvar surgeries performed on children under 17 years of age 18 patients were under 4 years of age 9 of those patients were under 1 year of age
Number of Hypospadias Repairs:
2000 65 (under 12 years of age 56 were under 2 years of age; +2 adults)
2001 68 (under 13 tears of age 56 were under 2 years of age; + 7 adults)
2002 82 (under 15 years of age 68 were under 2 years of age; + 6 adults)
2003 74 (under 13 years of age 62 were under 2 years of age; + 3 adults)
Total: 289 procedures on children under 15 years of age 242 were under 2 years of age 151 of those patients were under 1 year of age; + 18 procedures on adults = 307 surgeries
UCSF notes that the Hypospadias repair numbers contain "20 repeat patients who had 2 procedures each, and 7 repeat patients who had 3 procedures each," indicating that 27 people underwent 61 procedures.
From 2000 through 2003, UCSF performed 314 genital surgeries on children with ages from 1 day to 17 years:
242 procedures were performed on children under 2 years of age
162 patients were under 1 year of age.
Betsy
--I guess you aren't interested in hearing about the profile of myself and Bodies Like Ours airing on PBS next month?
