has manifested a sexual identity. The guidelines are based on a 2006 clinical consensus document. Brújula Intersexual describes the circular as permitting interventions without supporting long-term data, and ignoring testimonies of persons subjected to early interventions. In July 2018, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued concluding observations on harmful practices, recommending that Chile "explicitly prohibiting the performance of unnecessary surgical or other medical treatment on intersex children until they reach an age when they can give their free, prior and informed consent". The committee also called for the provision of counselling and support to families, and education to medical professionals. Remedies and claims for compensation Benjamín-Maricarmen case In 1993, a baby with "ambiguous genitalia" named Maricarmen, suffered an irreversible surgical intervention. It was determined by the child's medical team that the she would be raised as a girl, and her gonads and male reproductive system were removed. The parents were informed that the child had inguinal hernias. At the age of 10, in 2003, Maricarmen was to start hormone replacement therapy. In connection with this, blood tests were conducted, and these confirmed that the child's chromosomal sex was 46,XY, male. The ten-year old immediately transitioned, becoming Benjamín. Changing official documents took several years and required him to go through psychiatric and physical examinations. On 12 August 2005, the mother filed a lawsuit against the Maule Health Service. The claim for damages was initiated in the Fourth Court of Letters of Talca, but ended up in the Supreme Court of Chile. On 14 November 2012, the Court sentenced the Maule Health Service for "lack of service" and to pay compensation of 100 million pesos for moral and psychological damages caused to Benjamín, and another 5 million for each of the parents. The ruling states that the hospital should have had exams that would allow the parents and the victim to "decide about the removal of these organs and the condition of man or woman with which they would face life and society." Protection from discrimination Law 21,430 on "Guarantees and Integral Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents" includes protection from discrimination on grounds of sex characteristics. The law seeks to adapt Chilean legislation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 8 on "Equality and non arbitrary discrimination" states that "No boy, girl or adolescent may be arbitrarily discriminated against because of