What does it mean to be Intersex

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What does it mean to be Intersex

UN Free and Equal Campaign publishes Intersex Leaflet         The UN Free and Equal LGBT Campaign has just published it’s first factsheet about intersex. It’s a short, informative leaflet details the human rights violations intersex people face, and highlights action nations states and institutions need to adopt. These provide a very useful…
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The Trouble with The Danish Girl

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The recently released film Stonewall was rightly condemned for placing a white male in place of the black transwomen and the drag queens who were at the heart of the Stonewall riots, in a risible attempt to whitewash a landmark moment in LGBT history It is worth asking what will happen now a film is…
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On the Turning Away – A Brief Exploration of Medical Ethics

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Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist. He was detailed to investigate the abuses – long denied – committed on prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention camp. In his report he describes the phenomena whereby apparently otherwise “good” people do very bad things, in this case, the crimes committed in Abu Ghraib. “Good people do bad…
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Ghost in the Machine

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Once you label me, you negate me Søren Kierkegaard We know nothing of Joseph Marzo in life, so it is impossible to know what they would have ever thought of the declaration made after their death that they were “una donna” – a woman. They died after another episode of the vomiting and diarrhea that…
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Jersey adopts Intersex Discrimination Protections

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Jersey will become the first, and to-date only, part of the United Kingdom to offer legal discrimination protection to intersex people when it is formally adopted in September. The Discrimination (Sex and Related Characteristics) (Jersey) Regulations 2015 will be formally adopted on 1 September 2015.  It has become the first State within the UK to…
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Should Doctors Operate on Intersex Babies?

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In a word, no.   However, that wouldn’t make for a very readable Buzzfeed article, so instead we have this.   This article is gaining some traction on fb. It’s easy to see why. It has an identifiable subject who has been subjected to appalling medicalised violence in the name of orthodox protocols. Protocols that…
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