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| | Intersexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, most intersex individuals have resented the medical intervention, and some have been so discontented with their surgically assigned gender as to opt for sexual reassignment surgery later in life. | | | The appearance may be quite ambiguous, describable as female genitals with a very large clitoris and partially fused labia, or as male genitals with a very small penis, completely open along the midline ("hypospadic"), and empty scrotum. | | | There are dozens of named medical conditions that may lead to intersex anatomy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
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| | Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed? |
| | Intersexed adults have been told that because the doctors followed standard medical practice when they performed the surgery, the doctors are not liable for medical malpractice. | | | When an intersexed child is operated on to normalize his or her genitals, it is also part of a cultural tradition. | | | Once an intersexed person has undergone genital reconstruction surgery making his or her genitals clearly male or female, he or she cannot then choose to change his or her birth certificate without having a second round of surgeries performed. |
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http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/USA/haas1
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| | Intersexuality |
| | The studies that have been done suggest most intersex people are satisfied with the gender they were assigned, though maybe not with their equipment. | | | She thinks that some of their problems are not because they've had surgery, but because less experienced surgeons have sometimes done the work. |
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http://www.kindredspiritlakeside.homestead.com/Intersexuality.html
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| | Intersex Individuals Dispute Wisdom of Surgery on Infants |
| | Intersex individuals are grateful for the immense research done on the causes of intersex conditions. | | | Current medical treatment for intersex individuals is in a state of flux. | | | Intersex individual Howard Devore, PhD, is a practicing San Francisco psychologist who works with intersex patients. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/tkintersex.html
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| | What is Intersexuality |
| | In intersex cases, doctors and parents can work together to try to figure out what gender a child is likely to feel given that particular child's anatomy and physiology, given what doctors know from scientific studies of outcomes in similar cases, and given how the parents see that child's gender. | | | When a child is born with an intersex condition, even though the doctors and parents may have thought they knew what sex the child was from prenatal sonograms, the sex of the child may be unclear. | | | Doctors and parents should consider an intersexed baby's genitals and physiology and, using the best knowledge they have of various intersex conditions and our culture, decide which gender the child is most likely to grow up to have. |
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http://www.pflagdetroit.org/what_is_intersexuality.htm
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| | Salon Health & Body Sex police |
| | And some members of the medical establishment are beginning to question whether intersex surgeries make sense in infancy, before the child has a chance to reach puberty, develop his or her own sense of identity and give consent. | | | Under the urgent conditions of a medical emergency, they decide whether a smallish appendage is a proto-penis or a maxi-clitoris, and perform the surgery to make it so -- sometimes without even telling the parents the truth about their child, and rarely revealing anything to the patient as he or she grows up. | | | Later this month, academic surgeons and pediatric urologists meet in Dallas to thrash out the psychological, hormonal, surgical and practical issues of intersex treatment. |
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http://www.salon.com/health/feature/1999/04/05/sex_police
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| | Intersex Initiative: Intersex FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) |
| | Technically, intersex is defined as "congenital anomaly of the reproductive and sexual system." Intersex people are born with external genitalia, internal reproductive organs, and/or endocrine system that are different from most other people. | | | We are not saying that intersex babies are better off left alone; we want there to be social and psychological support for both the parents and intersex children so that they can deal with social difficulties resulting from being different than others. | | | In humans, there are no actual "hermaphrodites" in this sense, although doctors have called people with intersex conditions "hermaphrodites" because intersex bodies do not neatly comform to what doctors define as the "normal" male or female bodies. |
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http://www.intersexinitiative.org/articles/intersex-faq.html
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| | Intersex Activist & Educator Lynnell Stephani Long |
| | By the way, because some forms of intersex signal underlying metabolic concerns, a person who thinks she or he might be intersex should seek a diagnosis and find out if she or he needs professional healthcare. | | | For decades, doctors have thought it necessary to treat intersex with a concealment-centered approach, one that features downplaying intersex as much as possible, even to the point of lying to patients about their conditions. | | | • Children and adults with intersex, and their family members, should be provided with access to trained psychologists and social workers, especially when they are in distress (as some parents of newborns with intersex are). |
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http://www.millarca.com/intersex.html
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| | Managing intersex -- Creighton and Minto 323 (7324): 1264 -- BMJ |
| | studies of adults with intersex conditions are crucial. | | | Genital surgery is one of the most controversial interventions in current intersex management. | | | Intersex conditions consist of a blending or mix of the internal and external physical features usually classified as male |
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http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7324/1264
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| | Gonadal intersex (or "true hermaphrodite"): Rare condition in which the child has both ovarian and testicular tissue, either in separate gonads or as hybrid "ovotestes." Reproductive tracts, genital anatomy and gender identity are variable. | | | Although she faces considerable resistance, there is a gradual movement among pediatricians to rethink the traditional notion of early surgical intervention in the treatment of intersexed kids. | | | "I don't think it's realistic or beneficial to encourage parents to bring up children with an intersex identity." What she does want is for doctors to communicate with parents, parents with children and adult intersexes with the public. |
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http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/levay/intersex/main.asp?
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| | Steaphany Waelder's Intersexual & Transsexual Web Resources & References, Updated August 1, 2005 |
| | Intersexed people are born with atypical, ambiguous, or any combination of both female and male genital and reproductive anatomies which can be the result of about 80 different medical conditions. | | | Traditionally, the methods employed by the medical community to deal with babies born this way is to perform a sex altering surgery to make the child fit their idea of what is normal and what the child's gender should be. | | | It remains up to each person's discretion at what point in his or her relationships and personal development that he or she wishes to disclose, if ever, his or her personal history, no matter how unusual, interesting, heroic or controversial it might seem to the prurient. |
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http://www.wf.net/%7Ewaelder/TSinfo.html
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| | SFSI Intersex conditions |
| | Intersex conditions are a set of medical conditions that features congenital anomaly of the reproductive and sexual system. | | | ISNA is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female. | | | It's hard to get exact numbers because many doctors perform unrequested surgery to cover up some genital differences, and shame and secrecy do not encourage good record keeping on the subject. |
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http://www.sfsi.org/answers/intersex.html
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| | Journal of Sex Research: Hermaphrodites Speak! - Review - movie review |
| | In many of these intersex situations, medical intervention takes the form of genital surgery to "normalize" the appearance of external genitalia or remove gonadal tissues that could possibly pose a cancer risk later in life. | | | Some had not even known of the details of their intersex conditions, having had physicians provide them with inaccurate information (cf., Natarajan, 1996; a medical student won an award for arguing in favor of nondisclosure of intersex status to patients with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome). | | | While medical professionals have presumably conducted genital surgery in the hopes of helping the intersexed individual, the people in this video clearly resent the procedures that were performed upon them. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2372/3_37/68273932/p1/article.jhtml?term=hermaphroditism
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| | Legislation mooted to regulate intersex surgery |
| | A law on corrective surgery for children with ambiguous genitals, intersex children, was under consideration, the SA Human Rights Commission said. | | | The commission hosted a seminar on intersex children, asking whether gender "normalisation" surgery was in the best interests of the child. | | | Dr Ariane Spitaels, a paediatrician at the University of Stellenbosch's faculty of health sciences, said it was necessary to reconsider surgery performed shortly after birth. |
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/newsst/newsst1101895486.aspx
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| | Intersex Peer Support - Bodies Like Ours - Home |
| | These recommendations include suggestions to medical facilities on improving the care of those with intersex entrusted to their care. | | | Our goals are to make it okay to be born different and to recognize that we are not defined by what is between our legs. | | | Instead, we seek to be defined by what makes us whole as human beings--our soul, our gender, and our presence. |
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http://www.bodieslikeours.org/staticxt
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| | transfeminism.org - Introduction to Inersex Activism |
| | Somehow, doctors get freaked out when a newborn baby is found to be intersexed, and often mutilate her or his genitals to conform them to the doctors' idea of what a normal baby should look like, even though intersex conditions usually do not threaten the health of the infant. | | | intersex genital mutilation (IGM) in infancy and/or childhood came forward with testimonies of their pains - both the physical pain of repeated unsatisfactory surgeries, and the emotional pain of having one's body and sexuality violated, in addition to all the | | | Since the mid-20th century, doctors promoted early surgeries on infants with visibly intersexed genitalia on the assumption that they would grow up confused about their identities and |
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http://www.transfeminism.org/is-intro.html
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| | A Girl's Right to Choose: Intersex Children and Parents Challenge Narrow Standards of Gender |
| | While NOW members are familiar with Female Genital Mutilation, few know about Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), a common U.S. medical practice in which infants' genitals are cosmetically altered to more closely resemble medical ideals. | | | About five such operations are performed each day in U.S. hospitals on uncomplaining infants who have no chance to participate in or be informed on procedures that will affect their lives, bodies, and future sexual functioning. | | | Although considered "compassionate surgery," in actuality the vast majority of IGM surgeries involve otherwise unremarkable infants who simply have clitorises larger than an arbitrary standard of about 3/8 inch. |
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http://www.now.org/nnt/summer-2002/intersex.html
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| | The True Story of John/Joan (Rolling Stone) |
| | As he has stated often in his writings, he saw intersexual syndromes, which he called "experiments of nature," chiefly as a way to learn about the sexual development of so-called normal humans. | | | Horrified and angered at the deception perpetrated upon her, and aggrieved at the loss of her clitoris, which has rendered her incapable of orgasm, Chase began to seek out others like her for emotional support. | | | Thus, he immediately generalized his theories about intersexes to include all children, even those born without genital irregularities. |
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http://www.pfc.org.uk/news/1998/johnjoan.htm
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| | Guidelines Created for `Intersex' Babies / Doctors release report on ambiguous genitalia |
| | He added that the medical community is still debating the appropriate standard of care, goaded in part by vocal demands of some intersexual or transgendered adults who view surgery, unless chosen by the individual, as a form of genital mutilation. | | | But she welcomed the message that premature attempts at gender-assignment can lead to family discord and a lifetime of harrowing psychological problems. | | | Conflicts may arise in some individuals between their psychosexual orientation and their genital appearance and function. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/04/MN72774.DTL
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| | Intersex |
| | Much of this process is not yet fully understood, but "as many as 30 conditions may lead to a child being considered intersexed" (Lehrman). | | | Medically determining an infant’s sex is not always best because such actions are not only painful to the child, but also irreversible. | | | If the external genitalia, which form around the ninth week, do not match the internal sex organs, this is one way a baby can become intersexed. |
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http://homepages.wmich.edu/%7Ebstraigh/AN120/AN120visuals/Intersex.html
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| | NOVA Online Sex: Unknown The Intersex Spectrum |
| | Problems in the formation of chromosomes, gonads, or external genitals can lead to a range of intersex conditions. | | | For information on intersex conditions not mentioned here, see http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/pediatricendocrinology/. | | | Carl Gold is a former intern at NOVA Online. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gender/spectrum.html
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| | United Kingdom Intersex Society |
| | Intersexed people are individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from contemporary ideals of what constitutes "normal" male and female. | | | A few choice quotes from our archives which provide an insight into the workings of the outer-galaxies of medicine, journalism and the patients themselves. | | | for the assessment and treatment of intersex conditions. |
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http://www.ukia.co.uk
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| | Selection12 - Bhakti Ananda Goswami & Wal Torres ... and the Copernican revolution of man and woman definition |
| | In 2001, when I was compiling a survey of the best and most recent research on sex differentiation and intersex conditions in vertebral species (including our own), I read a number of biology and medical journal reports on intersex and sex-reversed animals and humans who had fathered or given birth to healthy off-spring. | | | Such intersex and sex-reversed persons are fully human and have basic God-given human rights too! | | | In the real world, human beings come in a continuum of complex biological conditions that range from the common standard issue XX=female and XY=male, through an extremely complex continuum of intersex states, all the way to the naturally sex-reversed XX-male and XY-female. |
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http://www.gendercare.com/library/tipslibrary12.html
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| | Being Intersexual |
| | The result is a desire to never have to talk or deal with the subject ever again. | | | There are more things in this world than most of us have ever imagined or could even begin to dream about. | | | The reason may be that most intersexed people have been subjected to very powerful family, medical, and societal proscriptions about their bodies or medical status. |
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http://www.romanceopedia.com/A-BeingIntersexual.html
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| | Transgender Resources and more |
| | The leading resource for intersexed persons, ISNA is a peer support, education, and advocacy group founded and operated by and for intersexuals: individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female. | | | Seeks to end the shame and secrecy that surrounds people born with atypical genitals through community and peer support. | | | An association of regional groups designed to provide education and support to transgendered individuals and those close to them, offering a variety of programs and resources focused on the factors affecting their lives. |
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http://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource.shtml
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| | V-Day: V-Day Endorses ISNA's Mission to End Violence Against Intersex People |
| | for treating intersex children involves irreversible and risky surgical interventions to make their genitals appear more "normal," but there is a growing movement among intersex people, allies, and medical professionals to replace these often harmful procedures with | | | North America (ISNA) to end shame, secrecy and unwanted genital surgeries on intersex children, or children born with atypical reproductive or sexual anatomies. | | | Founded in 1993 by Cheryl Chase, Intersex Society of North America is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to ending shame, secrecy and unwanted genital surgeries on intersex children. |
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http://www.vday.org/contents/vday/press/alertsandpressrel/vdayendorsesisna
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| | Doctors Told Not to Operate on Intersex Babies |
| | He says what genitalia forms in intersex babies is irrelevant. | | | Back in the day, doctors immediately conducted an operation when a baby was born without a clear gender. | | | Because parents must choose a gender for birth certificates, doctors look at the levels of sex hormones in the blood and sex chromosomes to make a determination. |
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http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=46249&newsid=1&rubrik1=Health&rubrik2=All&rubrik3=All&sort=1&start=1&sparte=4
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| | Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia |
| | As a result, many pediatric urologists, endocrinologists and psychiatrists are recommending that any reconstructive surgery for intersex conditions be undertaken only after the affected individual can understand the ramifications of the surgery and give informed consent. | | | However, it has become evident that some such individuals are, as adults, displeased with the long-term result (decreased clitoral sensitivity, vaginal stenosis, etc.). |
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http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/urology/cah.htm
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| | Gabi Clayton's Resources - GENDER |
| | Support for parents, children, and individuals with intersex conditions. | | | This is a confidential peer facilitated group open to anyone whose gender identity or expression does not fit their assigned gender and/or societal roles, or questioning their gender, including but not limited to Transgender, Intersex, Transsexual, Native Two-Spirit, Gender-Queer, Cross-Dressers, FTM, MTF, Bi-gendered, Drag, Non-gendered, Neutrois, Tomboys, Nellies, Androgynies, and all other gender variant people. | | | The term “gender variant” is being used as an umbrella term to include anyone whose gender identity or expression does not fit within their assigned gender. |
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http://www.youth-guard.org/gabi/gcresource_gender.htm
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| | Intersex Related Books |
| | Intersex in the Age of Ethics (Ethics in Clinical Medicine Series) | | | Looking Queer : Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities |
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http://www.bdid.com/intersexbooks.htm
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| | Intersex |
| | That practice has been banned in the Netherlands but although medical personnel and lay people are more open to variations in sexuality these days, people with an intersex condition still find the subject very difficult to bring up. | | | This recent work examines life histories of adults treated for intersexuality as children and argues that medical intervention leads to conflict and intensifies the stigma intersexed people feel. | | | Each chapter of this book presents the story of an intersexed individual's medical case. |
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http://www.soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/625/name/Intersex
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| | AIS Support Group Australia Inc. |
| | We welcome you to our site, and hope you will contact us if you are affected by AIS or a similar intersex condition. | | | These issues include infertility, disclosure, hormone therapy, gender identity, surgical intervention of children with intersex conditions, sexual intimacy etc. | | | The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) Support Group Australia Inc. (A0041398U) is a peer support, information and advocacy group for people affected by AIS and/or related intersex conditions, and their families. |
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http://www.vicnet.net.au/~aissg
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| | ITPeople.org: Intersex and Transgender People |
| | Please bear with us during our growing pains. | | | Information and resources for intersex and transgender people, those considering gender transition, family, friends, partners, and those building relationships. |
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http://www.itpeople.org
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| | Guide to Medical Intersexuality Vocabulary |
| | urologists Those benefactors of humanity who, with considerable difficulty, distinguish intersexed infant boys from intersexed infant girls. | | | distress A condition caused in parents when their intersexed children go unmutilated. | | | In medical literature, the 'rights' of the intersexed refer exclusively to their right to be modified, never to any right to remain as they are. |
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http://www.sexuality.org/l/transgen/intvoca.html
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| | Confluere: Online Store - Intersex 'Zines |
| | Includes sections on intersex basics, speaking basics, and speaking about intersex specifically. | | | Includes the article "From Controversy to Consensus," "Is Gender Identity Disorder an Intersex Condition?" and other essays. | | | Second edition (Oct. 2003) includes syllabus from Intersex Studies course taught at Portland State University. |
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http://www.confluere.com/store/zine-intersex.html
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| | [trans]Gender/Sex Resources - Lisa Lees |
| | May I be so bold as to suggest that intersexed and transsexed people need to talk to one another about their places in the text of gender? | | | The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is a peer support, education, and advocacy group founded and operated by and for intersexuals: individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female. | | | It is an inherited condition that affects approximately 1 in 10,000 people in the United Kingdom. |
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http://www.lisalees.com/trans/resource2.html
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| | LGBTI Health Summit 2004 |
| | If you care about LGBTI health and wellness, please join fellow activists, researchers, community members, health care professionals, and allies. | | | The hotel is centrally located in the Boston area, on the Charles River and close to public transportation, and will be an ideal place to deepen old friendships, make new ones, and be rejuvenated for the work at hand. | | | August 25-29, 2004 — Cambridge, MA he 2nd Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Health Summit will be held Wednesday August 25 through Sunday August 29, 2004, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, in Cambridge, MA. |
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http://www.healthsummit2004.org
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| | Kyriakie Sarafoglou, M.D. - Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Minnesota |
| | Kyriakie Sarafoglou is a multi-specialist (Pediatric Endocrinology, Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Human Genetics) active in patient care, clinical research and education of medical students and pediatric residents. | | | Sarafoglou has extensive clinical experience in adrenal and intersex disorders (congenital adrenal hyperplasia, gonadal dysgenesis, male and female pseudohermaphroditism, etc), inborn errors of metabolism, and disorders of growth and pubertal development (irregular menses, hirsutism, precocious or delayed puberty and short stature). |
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http://www.med.umn.edu/peds/endocrin/faculty/sarafoglou/home.html
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| | RESOURCES Transgender Health Program Vancouver BC |
| | Network of intersex activists and allies working to stop the medical abuse of intersex children, and to challenge medical and social erasure of intersex existence through raising the awareness of issues faced by intersex people. | | | Note: Intersex is an umbrella term for people born with sex chromosomes, genitals, or an internal reproductive system that does not medical definitions of what is "standard" for male and female bodies (e.g., a small penis/large clitoris, XXXY chromosomes, increased/decreased sensitivity to sex hormones). | | | As with any other subsection of the general population, some intersex people are transgender, while others are not. |
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http://www.vch.ca/transhealth/resources/links/peer.html
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| | Congenital forms of intersex |
| | The following are congenital or inherited abnormalities which can lead to genital ambiguity or the intersex condition: |
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http://www.ifas.org.au/congenital_intersex.html
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| | Hermaphroditism |
| | This condition has been called hermaphroditism (after the greek god Hermes and goddes Aphrodite) and it is one of many causes of intersex. | | | Whenever you see an infant with both hypospadias and an undescended testis (cryptorchidism), you must consider the possibility of intersex. | | | Because both male (46-XY) and female (46-XX) cells exist within the same fetus, both male and female structures develop. |
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http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/urology/hrmphdt.htm
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| | 'Intersex' smallmouth bass in U.S. rivers - (United Press International) |
| | A subsequent study found even higher rates of affected smallmouth bass males: a U.S. Geological Survey analysis found that 79 percent from the South Branch displayed intersex symptoms. | | | Dissecting the fish, mostly smallmouth bass, they found 42 percent of the males had developed eggs inside their sex organs. | | | Scientists are analyzing water samples from the South Branch and the Cacapon River -- a nearby Potomac tributary where intersex bass were also found. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041015-064526-1575r.htm
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