Curtis
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|  Subject: Mutilations or non-consensual normalization treatments?  Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:24 am | |
| Mutilations or non-consensual normalization treatments?
Statement and clarification from OII available with hyperlinks at
http://www.intersexualite.org/Intersex_treatments.html
Summary:
We have been asked why OII's Official Position on Health Care does not mention mutilations. There are many reasons for this. Most intersex activism has been focused on just denouncing surgery (basically feminizing surgery), while insisting on a gender assignment as soon as possible. However, this does not seem to have helped intersex infants and adults. As a matter of fact, we are now faced with a more pathological definition of intersex as a genetic defect (the real goal of the new DSD terminology is to classify all intersex variations by their genetic etiology) and non-consensual treatments are more justifiable now with the new terminology of “disorders of sex development” than when intersex activism began in the United States.
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Curtis E. Hinkle
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