Drawing the line between essential and nonessential interventions on intersex characteristics with European health care professionals

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Drawing the line between essential and nonessential interventions on intersex characteristics with European health care professionals

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Human rights statements on intersex characteristics distinguish legitimate “medically necessary” interventions from illegitimate normalizing ones. Ironically, this binary classification seems partially grounded in knowledge of anatomy and medical interventions; the very expertise that human rights statements challenge. Here, 23 European health professionals from specialist “disorder of sex development” (DSD) multidisciplinary teams located medical interventions on a continuum ranging from “me...

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2020

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Hegarty, Peter / Prandelli, Marta / Lundberg, Tove / Liao, Lih-Mei / Creighton, Sarah / Roen, Katrina

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14522

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Social Sciences / Psychology, Multidisciplinary / Psychology / intersex characteristics / human rights / medicalization / categorization / gender / sexuality / SEX DEVELOPMENT DSD / FEMINIZING GENITOPLASTY / AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA / DISORDERS / SURGERY / MANAGEMENT / PSYCHOLOGY / CONSENSUS / CHICAGO / GENDER

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