Educational psychologists’ experiences of supporting intersex children and young people

Connor, Julie; Atkinson, Cathy

doi:10.1080/02667363.2021.1890548

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“…Parents concerns may focus on schools' changing facilities, whilst their children describe broader school-related concerns [38]. Educational psychologists and school counsellors lack standards for supporting children with VSC [37,39].…”

Section: School and Sporting Contextsmentioning

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The psychology of people with variable sex characteristics/intersex

Hegarty

2023

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Section: School and Sporting Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The psychology of people with variable sex characteristics/intersex

Hegarty

2023

Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…Regarding the stigma of hypospadias to young boys, Morland (2001), who experienced such an intervention, concluded that when a child is at risk of being bullied that the problem might be better located in the social dynamics of bullying than in the physical trait that draws the bully's attention [50]. Twenty years on from his letter to The Lancet on these points, educational professionals are showing greater interest in developing the competency for forestalling the effects of stigma on children with intersex variations in their care [51,52]. Because of historical investment in medical authority to singularly provide it, the care and flourishing of children with variations in sex characteristics have become managed such that the scalpel has been asked to do the work of the soccer coach, the primary school teacher, and the social worker.…”

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Public understanding of intersex: an update on recent findings

Hegarty

Smith

2022

Int J Impot Res

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Surgical interventions on infants with intersex characteristics are considered justified by some on the grounds that they carry a high risk of intolerable stigma. However, public understanding of intersex and its medicalization are under-researched. We review recent qualitative and quantitative studies of the understandings of intersex and its medicalization among people who have no particular professional or public experience of intersex. First, such laypeople reason about clinical dilemmas by drawing on values in similar ways as expert healthcare professionals do. Second, laypeople can over-estimate the utility of current ‘umbrella terms,’ including intersex, for people with direct familial experience of intersex. Third, beliefs about good and bad effects of medical intervention are affected by framing intersex as either a medical condition or the natural basis for a social identity. Fourth, sexual identity is the best evidenced predictor of opinions about early surgical intervention and its legal limitation on human rights grounds. We argue that possible stigmatizing reactions from the public may not be a solid basis on which to justify early surgical intervention on intersex characteristics.

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Intersex Youth: A Call for Dignity in Mental Health Care

Skaggs,

Wall

2023

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Critical Perspectives on Mental Health

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Educational psychologists’ experiences of supporting intersex children and young people

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

The psychology of people with variable sex characteristics/intersex

The psychology of people with variable sex characteristics/intersex

Public understanding of intersex: an update on recent findings

Intersex Youth: A Call for Dignity in Mental Health Care

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