Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia

Jones, Tiffany; Hart, Bonnie; Carpenter, Morgan; Ansara, Gavi; Leonard, William; Lucke, Jayne

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“…41 A recent Australian survey of 272 adults born with atypical sex characteristics found "strong evidence" of "institutionalised shaming and coercive treatment". 42 Of the study population, 60% reported receiving medical interventions related to their intersex traits, and a majority experienced negative consequences, not simply medical or sexual: early school leaving (by 18% of respondents compared to a national average of 2%) was coincident with puberty and pubertal medical interventions.…”

Section: Rationales and Outcomes Of Medical Interventionmentioning

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“…Only 3% of respondents use DSD by choice, while 60% use terms including the word intersex. 42 Interestingly, 21% use DSD when accessing healthcare, indicating a perceived need to use disordering language to obtain appropriate care.…”

Section: Rationales and Outcomes Of Medical Interventionmentioning

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“…79 Media reports frequently and uncritically present an unsubstantiated narrative of fewer surgical interventions, and improved medical practices. 26,28,80 Reports that frame intersex within LGBTI contexts frequently, and incorrectly, 42 often assume that intersex people are all gay, or transgender. 81,82 From an intersex perspective, the LGBT movement appears preoccupied with identity and relationship recognition, without recognition of bodily autonomy, and deeper challenges posed by sex and gender norms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…90 Identities are frequently informed by bodily characteristics, but while some intersex people use intersex or non-binary as gender labels, most intersex adults are female or male. 42 Suppositions that sex characteristics dictate gender identity not only deny the existence of trans people, they deny agency to intersex people to autonomously determine sex and gender. Third sex classifications pose added difficulties for infants: parents may feel increased pressure to avoid stigma, disclosure and social incomprehension through physical interventions, ensuring an unequivocal, familiar sex assignment.…”

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The human rights of intersex people: addressing harmful practices and rhetoric of change

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2016

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Intersex people and bodies have been considered incapable of integration into society. Medical interventions on often healthy bodies remain the norm, addressing perceived familial and cultural demands, despite concerns about necessity, outcomes, conduct and consent. A global and decentralised intersex movement pursues simple core goals: the rights to bodily autonomy and self-determination, and an end to stigmatisation. The international human rights system is responding with an array of new policy statements from human rights institutions and a handful of national governments recognising the rights of intersex people. However, major challenges remain to implement those statements. Human rights violations of intersex individuals persist, deeply embedded in a deliberate history of silencing. Rhetoric of change to clinical practices remain unsubstantiated. Policy disjunctions arise in a framing of intersex issues as matters of sexual orientation and gender identity, rather than innate sex characteristics; this has led to a rhetoric of inclusion that is not matched by the reality.This paper provides an overview of harmful practices on intersex bodies, human rights developments, and rhetorics of change and inclusion.

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“…La marginalisation ou l'oppression entraîne une gamme de conséquences négatives sur la santé physique, la santé mentale, les liens socioaffectifs et la trajectoire socioéconomique (Bauer et Scheim, 2015;Fish, 2006;Jones et al, 2016;Peers et Demczuk, 1998). Qui plus est, l'accès à la santé est compromis lorsque les services du personnel d'intervention ou les professionnels sont empreints de préjugés, ou lorsqu'ils sont niés aux personnes marginalisées (Bauer et al, 2009;Fish, 2006;Peers et Demczuk, 1998).…”

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De l’intervention à l’action : nouvelles avenues d’inclusion des communautés LGBTQI

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Bouchard³

2016

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Tous droits réservés © Université du Québec à Montréal, 2016Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d'auteur. L'utilisation des services d'Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d'utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne.https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit.Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de

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Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair

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2018

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Apology is arguably the central act of the reparative work required after wrongdoing. The analysis by Claudia Card (1940--2015) of complicity in collectively perpetrated evils moves one to ask whether apology ought to be requested of persons culpably complicit in institutional evils. To better appreciate the benefits of and barriers to apologies offered by culpably complicit wrongdoers, this article examines doctors complicity in a practice that meets Cards definition of an evil, namely, the non-medically necessary, nonconsensual "normalizing" interventions performed on babies born with intersex anatomies. It argues that in this instance the complicity of doctors is culpable on Cards terms, and that their culpable complicity grounds rightful demands for them to apologize.

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Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia

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The human rights of intersex people: addressing harmful practices and rhetoric of change

The human rights of intersex people: addressing harmful practices and rhetoric of change

De l’intervention à l’action : nouvelles avenues d’inclusion des communautés LGBTQI

Institutional Evils, Culpable Complicity, and Duties to Engage in Moral Repair

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