How young people talk about their variations in sex characteristics: making the topic of intersex talkable via sex education

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How young people talk about their variations in sex characteristics: making the topic of intersex talkable via sex education

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University of Waikato

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Classrooms are important spaces for young people with variations in sex characteristics and their classmates. Sex education can promote agency and well-being by helping young people make sense of their embodiment and form rewarding social relationships and by changing societal understandings about variations in sex characteristics. Realising this potential however may hinge on how sex education makes intersex (un)talkable. We draw on interviews with 22 young people on how and why they try to ...

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2021

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Lundberg, Tove / Roen, Katrina / Kraft, Carina / Hegarty, Peter

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14283

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sex Education on 20 April 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14681811.2021.1911796.

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