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| | Intersexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Some have attacked the common Western practice of performing corrective surgery on the genitals of intersexuals as a Western cultural equivalent of female genital mutilation. | | | Intersexual individuals are treated in different ways by different cultures. | | | Since the rise of modern medical science in Western societies, intersexuals with ambiguous external genitalia have had their genitalia surgically modified to resemble either male or female genitals. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality
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| | Intersexuality - A Plea for Honesty and Emotional Support |
| | Intersexual children's bodies combine male and female characteristics, and the decision to register the child's birth as a girl or as a boy is made by the physician, largely on the basis of the prognosis for genital plastic surgery. | | | From the point of view of the intersexual adolescent such a physician may be seen as allied with the parents against any trace of sexual difference or criticism of medical treatment, rather than as a trusted counselor and advisor. | | | Children born intersexual face psychological difficulties no matter what treatment choice is made, and sexually sophisticated, ongoing counseling for both family and child must become the central component of the treatment process. |
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http://ahpweb.org/pub/perspective/intersex.html
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| | Intersexuality and Scripture |
| | Intersexuality sometimes results from the breakdown of this rule-of-thumb in connexion with the “XX” and “XY” chromosomal patterns. | | | This theological condemnation of lived intersexual identities also finds expression in unconditional support for surgical interventions, as early as possible, aimed at making the unacceptably ambiguous bodies of intersexed infants and children conform to the dichotomous model in which there is no room whatsoever for ambiguity. | | | Such apparently religiously-motivated endorsement of surgery is insensitive to the fact that in most cases surgery is not necessitated by any real threat to the life or health of the infant, so that it is purely cosmetic in character. |
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http://www.bfpubs.demon.co.uk/sally.htm
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| | Gender - Sex - 4Health from Channel 4 |
| | Where a baby is born with indeterminate genitals, the choice to perform surgery to 'standardise' the genitals is often laid in front of the parents. | | | Current research suggests that appearance of genitals is NOT the determining factor in making a person identify with one gender or another, despite previous thinking by psychologists such as John Money that curing the genital anomaly would cure the condition. | | | To do this within a body that can, in some cases, be biologically and emotionally at war with itself can only be achieved with the best of stable nurturing and wise counsel, albeit with advances in medical understanding (both surgical and hormonal) often playing a vital supporting role. |
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http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/body/gen_intersex.html
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| | Inside Intersexuality - Intersexuals,Parents of Intersexuals |
| | Many intersexuals and medical professionals are deeply concerned with this subject, and with the present medical practice of surgically assigning a single sexual appearance to babies born intersexuals. | | | Most importantly though, this will be a support site for Intersexuals and Parents of Intersexuals; a place where we can gather to discuss our concerns, fears, and everyday life. | | | These brave people undergo excruciating pain, lengthy treatments and expense to have their external bodies match their inner identity and spirits as women or men. |
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http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/gender/intersexuals
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| | Paper by Morgan Holmes: Long Version |
| | Discussion of homophobia and its connection to the mutilation of intersexuals is avoided, in part, by focusing solely on practices of FGM as a problem/practise specific to "Other" cultures. | | | In the case of the medical mode of treating intersexuality, there is an abuse of power at many levels: doctors routinely mislead parents as to the nature of their child's condition, revealing only that the genital appearance is ambiguous because "nature hasn't finished the job" | | | Medical practitioners fused the notion of the abnormal with that of the pathological--something harmful, to be controlled. |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/queerfrontiers/queer/papers/holmes.long.html
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| | eminism.org - Beyond "Five Sexes" |
| | Before starting this project, we knew that there were some problems with how we as feminist scholars address the topic of intersexuality, because we have been in classrooms, seen conference presentations, or read literatures in which intersex was reduced to a theoretical point with little regard for the reality of intersex individuals' lives. | | | However, not all academic interest in the intersex "phenomenon" has been constructive or helpful to the lives of intersex people themselves, as scholars frequently treat intersexuality merely as a convenient theoretical standpoint to demonstrate the social construction of the sexed/gendered body rather than as a lived experience and a site of systemic erasure and resistance. | | | Although not relying upon a controlled research design, the results nonetheless confirmed our prediction that intersex existence is understood and presented largely as a scholarly object to be studied in order to deconstruct the notion of binary sexes (and thus sexism and homophobia) rather than a subject that has real-world implications for real people. |
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http://eminism.org/academic/fivesexes.html
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| | Re-membering a Queer Body |
| | Therefore I have retained the adjoining 'clit' to make the point that in spite of the intersexuality of such bodies, they are related on physical, philosophical and experiential levels to female bodies not deemed anomalous. | | | Sex is also constructed, not only at the ideological level of gender, but at the physical/biological level of bodies and surgery. | | | Texts and research dealing with intersexuality make no provision for intersexuality to exist except as a pathological condition. |
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http://www.medhelp.org/www/ais/articles/HOLMES.HTM
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| | Patricia L. Martin, Moving Toward An International Standard In Informed Consent: The Impact Of Intersexuality And The ... |
| | As new complications in the surgery for intersexuals are discovered, or as long-term studies indicate negative results, doctors who were part of a team treating intersexuals may have a duty to locate and inform their patients of potential complications. | | | their doctors and clamored for change in the treatment of the intersexual, but the thinking and hypotheses of specialists in surgery, endocrinology, psychology, ethics, psychiatry, genetics, and public health have begun to reflect the clinical responses to genital ambiguity. | | | By 1950, as surgical techniques improved and doctors developed a more sophisticated understanding of the hormonal and biochemical functions of the body, physicians were able to "catch" intersexuals at the time of birth and perform surgery to eliminate ambiguous or "abnormal" physical genital traits. |
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http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/articles/gen9p135.htm
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| | A Space for Intersexuality |
| | The first principle of medicine is "Primum, non nocerum" which translates into "First, do no harm." Intersexual adults often claim that they feel as though irrevocable damage and violence has been done to their bodies, and these intense feelings are evidence that the surgery is more harmful than it is helpful. | | | The fact that the human race had once recognized intersexuality as occurring normally and now considers it a monstrosity seemed to demonstrate to me that we are indeed regressing. | | | One in one hundred births produces in an infant whose body differs from the standard male or female, and the chances of a baby being born who is neither XX or XY is one in 1,666 births. |
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/courses/knowbody/f04/web2/epiastra.html
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Jamie Lee Curtis) |
| | Treatment of cases of blatant intersexuality is generally (but not always) surgical in nature, with reconstruction performed on the infant patient to add or remove body parts so as to end up with a child completely male or female in physical appearance. | | | Curtis has repeatedly declined deigning to provide a response to this rumor, and her physicians — even if they had something to say and wanted to say it — are bound by doctor-patient confidentiality strictures. | | | However, one particular point needs to be made, and made quite vehemently: The existence of such medical conditions is not reason in itself to suppose that Jamie Lee Curtis has any of them. |
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http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/jamie.htm
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| | SAGE Publications - Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence |
| | Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices presents an overview of the research, clinical insights, and ethical dilemmas relevant to clinicians who treat intersex youth and their families. | | | An indispensable resource for mental health, medical, and educational professionals who work with children and adolescents, Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices is also an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate, graduate, and credential students in developmental and clinical psychology, pediatric psychiatry, pediatric nursing, and gender studies courses. | | | Combining empirical knowledge and in-depth research, the authors supply practitioners with the tools to effectively treat intersex, gender dysphoric, and gender variant youth. |
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http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3867
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| | PFLAGCD-Intersexuality |
| | In the 1950's, doctors developed a way of thinking about, and treating, intersexuality. | | | The tools that doctors settled upon were misrepresentation, secrecy, and medically unnecessary surgery. | | | Sexual "ambiguity" can, of course, extend beyond the genitals, if you define sex in the common ways. |
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http://pflagcd.tripod.com/intersexuality.html
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| | Intersexuality |
| | These behaviors are not due to poor parental supervision but will be related to an interaction of the biological, psychological, social and cultural forces to which a child with intersexuality is subject. | | | Some individuals will be quite sexually active and others will be altogether reserved and have little or no interest in sexual relationships. | | | The individual may demonstrate androphilic, gynecophilic or ambiphilic orientation. |
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http://www.the-clitoris.com/f_html/intersexuality.htm
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| | ITPeople.org: Intersexed |
| | One misconception is that intersexuals can impregnate themselves to both sire and bear a child; no such incidents have been documented and most intersexuals do not have the anatomy to make such a thing possible. | | | When an intersex child is born, most doctors treat the infant as a crisis and perform surgery without informed consent to make the child appear either male or female. | | | Many doctors know very little about intersexuality and medical practitioners frequently mistreat people with intersex conditions. |
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http://www.itpeople.org/intersexed.php
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| | Transcend - Resource Guide |
| | One infant in 1,666 is born with a chromosomal makeup that is neither XX nor XY. | | | There is a range of differences in human bodies, and so also a range of differences in ‘sex’. | | | Intersexuality encompasses a number of experiences of anatomical and biological ‘sex’. |
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http://www.transgender.org/transcend/guide/sec119.htm
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| | HM 543: Human Devt & Behavior -- Supplemental Learning |
| | Should cosmetic surgery be performed on the genitals of children born with ambiguous genitals? | | | 2) How might issues of intersexuality and gender identity be part of growth and development through the young child and teenage years? | | | Ethical Issues in the Medical Treatment of Intersexuality. |
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http://www.msu.edu/course/hm/543/learning.htm
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| | Intactivism and Intersexuality |
| | In the past, a baby's intersexuality might actually be concealed from the mother until the "problem" had been surgically "solved". | | | Intersexuality can vary in degree; there may be just a slight variation of the genitals, such as hypospadias, where the urinary opening appears part way down the penis, or clitoromegaly, where the clitoris is bigger than usual. | | | The surgical "correction" is often entirely cosmetic, focussed on giving the appearance of "one sex or the other" and having the capacity for heterosexual intercourse. |
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http://www.circumstitions.com/Intersex.html
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| | Information about Intersexuality -- NotJustSkin.org |
| | We recommend that parents of children identified as intersex make contact with adults identifying as intersex and peer support from other parents prior to making surgical decisions. | | | Rather than surgical alteration of their bodies, these children need a more accepting and supportive environment. | | | Not surprisingly, data show that sexual function can be compromised by clitoral surgery; in the study population, many of the individuals who had been operated on reported sexual difficulties and inability to orgasm. |
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http://www.notjustskin.org/en/intersex.html
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| | MUSC doc to head task force to intersexuality: 5/12 |
| | Its first priority will be to determine the long term psychosexual outcomes among intersex patients who were assigned at birth either boys or girls to learn whether the criteria for making this decision at the time were appropriate. | | | The Task Force is also developing an educational website to help pediatricians and family physicians as well as the families of infants born with ambiguous genitalia better understand these conditions. | | | director of Pediatric Urology, has been chosen to head The North American Task Force on Intersexuality— a group charged with the design and execution of long term follow up studies of intersex patients. |
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http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/1999/co5-12musc.htm
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| | eMedicine - Ambiguous Genitalia and Intersexuality : Article by Joel Hutcheson, MD |
| | Moratorium: Intersex activists and some health care professionals have called for a moratorium on gender reassignment and genital surgery until studies have been completed on the long-term effects of such surgery. | | | Rajfer J, Walsh PC: The incidence of intersexuality in patients with hypospadias and cryptorchidism. | | | Several long-term follow-up studies are being conducted, including a study by the North American Task Force on Intersexuality. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1492.htm
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| | when you're not around threesomes aren't normal...: intersexuality |
| | Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." --Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach p> --> | | | I've decided to write a paper for one of my courses on intersex issues. | | | when you're not around threesomes aren't normal...: intersexuality |
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http://manda1poo.blogspot.com/2005/03/intersexuality.html
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| | ExpressO Preprint Series |
| | Receive personalized notification of papers of interest to you. | | | Consequently, marriage as a fundamental liberty must be made universal, available to all couples, regardless of their “sexes.” | | | Michael L. Rosin, "Intersexuality and Universal Marriage" (August 22, 2004). |
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http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/350
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| | Call for Papers—Intersex Symposium and Special Issue on Intersexuality - Intersex Community Forums Bodies Like Ours |
| | The Women’s Law Journal of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Bodies Like Ours is pleased to present a day long symposium on intersexuality, tentatively scheduled to be held in New York City on February 23, 2005. | | | The proceeds of the symposium will be published in a special issue of the Cardozo Women’s Law Journal. | | | Call for Papers—Intersex Symposium and Special Issue on Intersexuality - Intersex Community Forums |
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http://www.bodieslikeours.org/forums/showthread.php?t=952
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