Gender Assignment Intersexed Transgendered
Gender Assignment Intersexed Transgendered
This category contains sites about using surgery or other medical treatment to assign gender to children with ambiguous genitalia.
Top: Society: Transgendered: Intersexed: Gender Assignment
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Managing Intersex - An editorial with references and responses arguing that most vaginal surgery in children should be deferred.
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Astraea: Genital Surgery Controversy - Text of a New York Times article examining the legal issue of gender assignment surgery and comparing the practice to female genital mutilation.
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Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children - A letter from Cheryl Chase, Executive Director, Intersex Society of North America to a judge in Colombia, South America expressing the opinion that choices involving sexual identity and cosmetic genital surgery should be left to the patient.
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Am I a Woman? - Summary of a 1998 Mademoiselle article about intersex activist Angela Moreno in which she describes the lingering effects of her gender assignment surgery.
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Making the Cut - Article from Ms. Magazine tracing the history of clitoridectomy from the 1800s when it was used to prevent masturbation to the modern practice of assigning gender to sexually ambiguous children.
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Into the Hands of Babes - Article from Johns Hopkins Magazine about William Reiner and his change of heart with regards to the treatment of intersexed children.
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The True Story of John/Joan - Story of an anonymous baby boy who was turned into a girl by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1967 after the boy's penis was burned by an electro-cautery needle during circumcision.
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Genital Plastic Surgery - An article examining the nature vs. nuture argument that encourages parents to make an informed decision about whether or not to consent to surgery.
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Queer Cut Bodies - Paper by Morgan Holmes subtitled "Intersexuality & Homophobia in Medical Practice" which examines the surgical and medical management of intersexed children in terms of a relationship of violence in which the intersexed are disenfranchised,
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Sexual Scientists Question Medical Treatment of Hermaphroditism - Summary of a symposium titled "Genitals, Identity, and Gender," at the 1995 convention of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
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Surgery for Intersex - Article from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine examining the sex of rearing, the long term outcomes of feminization, and the patient's view. Includes references.
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Physician's Weekly Point/Counterpoint - Doctor's Peter Lee and Philip Gruppuso argue the issue of whether cosmetic surgery should be performed on children born with ambiguous genitals.
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Ambiguous Genitalia: Stop Gender Assignment - An article by Deborah E. Brown, Director Intersex Support Group International, urging parents to avoid early invasive treatments.
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