Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
INTERSEX activist, psychologist and academic Y. Gavriel Ansara has co-written a ground-breaking work on cisgenderism and its adverse effects on nonconforming children. Mental health professionals are more cisgenderist than other authors. Articles by members of an ‘invisible college’ structured around the most prolific author in this area are more cisgenderist and impactful than other articles….
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THE intersex girls described in this article – “children whose internal organs do not match their external genitalia” – will remain intersex for the rest of their lives despite masculinizing genitoplasty surgeries. They claim a strict procedure is followed to determine the sex of the newborn, after which the external appearance of the child is…
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ANNE Tamar-Mattis writes in support of leaving intersex out of psychiatrists’ bible the DSM-V – the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. OII rejects pathologising language, such as “disorders” and “DSD” as harming intersex people.
WE are mindful of a range of beliefs about the XXY karyotype – about being male, being female and being intersex – often warring with each other out there in the wider community, so we were very interested to come across the story of Juno, formerly Alejandro, recently. A number of members of OII across…
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OII-USA Spokesperson for Human Rights, Hida Viloria, is quoted in an article on intersex in an online publication by Stanford Medicine. OII is against non-consensual surgery and related medical treatment on intersex newborn’s genitals, and demands that intersex children have the right to choose what medical treatment they wish, when they want it. OII also…
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MOVES to improve diagnosis and treatment of sex development disorders, which make it difficult to determine whether a person is male or female, are gaining momentum in Japan. In October the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology announced that over the past five years at least 3,000 minors have been diagnosed with disorders of sex development,…
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IN the realm of sexual taboos in Egypt, the issue of “intersex individuals” – or those born with “ambiguous genitalia” – is certainly somewhere near the top of the list. While medical professionals take an impartial approach to treatment and surgical operations, social and cultural factors pose a challenge for affected individuals and their families….
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JE reviens de Somalie. Mogadiscio est totalement abandonnée. A l’hopital Madina, j’ai vu un médecin irakien, chef de la chirurgie d’urgence, qui a du donner un litre de son propre sang pour sauver un blessé. Pas de banque du sang dans le principal hopital d’un pays en guerre. Et puis, j’ai vu une vague inexpliquée…
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