Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children Please refer also to enclosed Declarations from Cheryl Chase (Director of the Intersex Society), Justine Schober M.D. (pediatric urological surgeon), Alice Dreger Ph.D. (narrative ethicist), and Lisset Barcellos Cardenas (a Peruvian woman subjected to nonconsensual genital surgery at age 12). All of these argue that cosmetic genital surgery should never be performed without the express informed consent of the patient. Also enclosed is a letter in the original Spanish from Ms. Barcellos to her doctor in Lima, insisting that this practice is harmful, unethical, and must be stopped

AIS- Personal Stories So far, we have the following personal stories:

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ISNA - Notes on the Treatment of Intersex Both, surely, but that isn't the point! The point is that intersexed people ought to be treated with the same basic ethical principles as everyone else - respect for their autonomy and self-determination, truth about their bodies and lives, etc. Physicians and researchers should stop using intersex in "nature/nurture" experiments

ISNA - How to become an ally to intersex people While some intersex people also identify as transgender, intersex people as a group have a unique set of needs and priorities besides those shared with trans people. Too often, intersex people's unique needs are made invisible or secondary when "intersex" becomes just another subcategory of "transgender." It is for this reason that we prefer to have "intersex" spelled out explicitly rather than have it "included" in "transgender."

AIS-Introduction People with AIS have a functioning Y chromosome (and therefore no female internal organs), but an abnormality on the X chromosome that renders the body completely or partially incapable of recognising the androgens produced. In the case of complete androgen insensitivity (CAIS) the external genital development takes a female form. In the case of partial insensitivity (PAIS) the external genital appearance may lie anywhere along the spectrum from male to female. Other related conditions, resulting from changes on different chromosomes, also disrupt the normal pathway of androgen action, resulting again in a feminized phenotype (external body form). People with these conditions may identify as female, intergendered, or male

The Register-Morpheus works/notworks Whether this will appease its critics, such as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, seems doubtful

Clueless Comments: transsexual rights Further, historically and currently in most cases genital intersexuality or early genital damage have been handled during infancy - obviously without input from the individual being treated. For pragmatic (if questionable on ethical and efficacy grounds) reasons this generally involves the surgical creation of a neo-vagina in cases of herms, merms, or irreparable genital damage with the later introduction of exogenous hormones (17b-Estradiol or a variant like Estradiol Valerate, sometimes also a progestin/progesterone - unlikely to reach Tanner 4/5 without the latter, but it's done) at the proper point. These people would be legally male or legally female, depending on the particular root cause, under Littleton without regard to their lives or the uniqueness of their situation. Complicating the situation further, in some instances these people are not told of the particulars of their situation and may not even know, and in some instances when they do find out they detransition - sexually reassigning children has a lousy track record at best.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Corpse leads police to incestuous family Kenneth Holley, chief deputy for the Glades county sheriff's office, said: "Some of our norms are defined by law. Some people don't agree with the norms, and they live outside the law. Our main concern was for the welfare of the children - it is going to be tragic for the children. They have lived there and don't know what has allegedly happened is wrong."
(wull...y'know it's wrong...wull..it's wrong because it's bad..y'know...it's bad y'know fer the kids and stuff..y'know. uhh..it's the law...uhh..because it's bad...it's bad y'know fer the kids and it's against the law becuz it's bad fer em. on the other hand they weren't hurting anyone and they obviously had some kind of love going on, were they all retarded? is John Ashcroft a musician?)

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