Journal ArticleBioethics · June 2024
This article argues for a ban on the performance of medically unnecessary genital normalizing surgeries as part of assigning a binary sex/gender to infants with intersex conditions on the basis of autonomy, regardless of etiology. It does this via a dis/an ...
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Journal ArticleCell · June 2023
The number of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) have grown over the last few years. We asked several Black scientists what impact they have and why STEMM still needs th ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
Since the late 1980s, feminist scholars across the sciences and the humanities have argued that sex, in addition to gender, was socially constructed in at least two senses of the term. First, our understanding of sex, itself –that is, our understanding of ...
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Journal ArticleHypatia · November 1, 2019
In this critical, feminist account of the management of intersex conditions under 2006’s controversial “Disorders of Sex Development” (DSD) treatment model, I argue that like the “Optimal Gender of Rearing” (OGR) treatment model it replaced, DSD aims at se ...
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Other · January 1, 2016
The intersex movement refers to work undertaken by various organizations and individuals in the Global North from 1993 to the present to publicize the existence of intersex conditions (and intersex bodies) and to critique both their pathologization and the ...
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