Tag: intersex
Transforming, a documentary about kids who identify as transgender or intersex
Tallbergs Publishing House’s Marcus Tallberg are working together with Camilla Gisslow to create the documentary Transforming, but they need your support to be able to make it.
Intersex Kids Need U.S Paediatricians’ Support
Time For American Academy of Pediatrics to Oppose Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Kids.
Refocus Intersex Care Standards
Two key medical associations should publicly affirm their support to end medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said today.
Intersex Infant Surgery Settlement Highlights Regulatory Gaps
A legal settlement in South Carolina last week will award US$ 440,000 to a 12-year-old intersex child, born with sex characteristics not quite typically male or female, who was operated on as an infant to make his body appear like a girl. The surgery was irreversible, medically unnecessary, and traumatising for the child, who grew up to identify as a boy.
Statement on M.C. vs. Medical University of South Carolina
After four years of litigation (including a lengthy discovery process), the Parties agreed that it was mutually beneficial to amicably resolve this case.
U.S : Harmful Surgery on Intersex Children
Doctors in the United States continue to perform medically unnecessary surgeries that can inflict permanent harm on intersex children, Human Rights Watch and interACT said in a report released today.