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In Madhya Pradesh state, up to 300 girls were surgically turned into boys in JUST one city after their parents paid about £2,000 each for the operations.
India's gender balance has already been tilted in favour of boys by female foeticide – sex selection abortions - by families who fear the high marriage costs and dowries they may have to pay.
The surgery, known as genitoplasty, fashions a penis from female organs, with the child being injected with male hormones to create a boy.
Education had failed to stop the growing rejection of baby girls in India.
The figures are getting worse. In 2001 there were 886 girls born to every 1,000 boys in Delhi. Today there are only 866.
People don't want to share their property or invest in girls' education or pay dowries. It's the greedy middle classes running after money.
India's gender balance has already been tilted in favour of boys by female foeticide – sex selection abortions - by families who fear the high marriage costs and dowries they may have to pay.
The surgery, known as genitoplasty, fashions a penis from female organs, with the child being injected with male hormones to create a boy.
Education had failed to stop the growing rejection of baby girls in India.
The figures are getting worse. In 2001 there were 886 girls born to every 1,000 boys in Delhi. Today there are only 866.
People don't want to share their property or invest in girls' education or pay dowries. It's the greedy middle classes running after money.