Essays on Intersex
by Curtis E. Hinkle

Available in pdf on OII's website:

http://www.intersexualite.org/Essays_on_Intersex_by_Curtis_E._Hinkle.pdf

Table of Contents:

Ten Misconceptions about Intersex 3

Sex versus Gender : Exposing medical violence and dishonesty 7

Who owns our bodies? Human rights and the intersexed 10

People without faces : Controlling discourse to objectify and silence marginalized groups 14

The fundamental error of conflating intersex with birth defects 16

One binary please, supersize: The McDonaldization of Intersex activism 19

Alice Dreger: Disorders of Sex Development 21

Disordering the lives of children 26

Handbook for Parents is transphobic and homophobic 29

Pathological (hetero)sexism and the medicalisation of sex in children Intersex – The sex that dare not speak its name 32

DSD: N.A. Medical fascism and manufacturing consent 37

Medical Fraud and Quackery (Satire) 41

New Guidelines for Sex Development Disorders – Parody 43

Talking About What Matters?: A response to Alice Dreger 45

Why the intergender community is so important to the intersex community? 49

Organisation Intersex International – Official Positions 52

Mutilations or Non-consensual normalization treatments ? 54