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Managing Intersex - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7324/1264
An editorial with references and responses arguing that most vaginal surgery in children should be deferred. |
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Making the Cut - http://www.msmagazine.com/oct00/makingthecut.html
Article from Ms. Magazine tracing the history of clitoridectomy from the 1800s when it was used to prevent masturbation to the modern practice of assigning gender to sexually ambiguous children. |
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Am I a Woman? - http://www.isna.org/pr/pr3-5-98.html
Summary of a 1998 Mademoiselle article about intersex activist Angela Moreno in which she describes the lingering effects of her gender assignment surgery. |
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The True Story of John/Joan - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/article_john_joan.htm
Story of an anonymous baby boy who was turned into a girl by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1967 after the boy's penis was burned by an electro-cautery needle during circumcision. |
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Sexual Scientists Question Medical Treatment of Hermaphroditism - http://www.gn.apc.org/inquirer/intersex.html
Summary of a symposium titled "Genitals, Identity, and Gender," at the 1995 convention of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. |
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Ambiguous Genitalia: Stop Gender Assignment - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/article_intersex_change_brown.htm
An article by Deborah E. Brown, Director Intersex Support Group International, urging parents to avoid early invasive treatments. |
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Physician's Weekly Point/Counterpoint - http://www.physweekly.com/archive/99/08_16_99/pc.html
Doctor's Peter Lee and Philip Gruppuso argue the issue of whether cosmetic surgery should be performed on children born with ambiguous genitals. |
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Into the Hands of Babes - http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0900web/babes.html
Article from Johns Hopkins Magazine about William Reiner and his change of heart with regards to the treatment of intersexed children. |
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Genital Surgery On Intersexed Children - http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Gender/intersexuals/article_letter_children.htm
A letter from Cheryl Chase, Executive Director, Intersex Society of North America to a judge in Colombia, South America expressing the opinion that choices involving sexual identity and cosmetic genital surgery should be left to the patient. |
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Surgery for Intersex - http://www.jrsm.org/cgi/content/full/94/5/218
Article from the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine examining the sex of rearing, the long term outcomes of feminization, and the patient's view. Includes references. |