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Intersex Studies: A Systematic Review of International Health Literature

SAGE Open, 2018
There is a need to better understand contemporary issues of nomenclature and group construction around people with intersex variations shaping health research and practices—including their framing within concepts like disorders of sex development (DSD ...
Tiffany Mary Jones
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Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Intersex and Aproctia in Large White Pigs [PDF]

Animals
Congenital developmental abnormalities in piglets, such as intersex and aproctia, adversely affect survival rates, growth performance, and genetic breeding efficiency in pig populations.
Yajun Li, Jiaxin Shi, Yingshan Yang, Donglin Ruan, Jie Wu, Danyang Lin, Zihao Liao, Xinrun Hong, Fuchen Zhou, Langqing Liu, Jie Yang, Ming Yang, Enqin Zheng, Zhenfang Wu, Gengyuan Cai, Zebin Zhang   +15 more
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Ageing in obscurity: a critical literature review regarding older intersex people

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Intersex people experience a range of human rights abuses, including non-consensual, irreversible medical interventions on minors. These abuses have lifelong effects, yet little is known about older intersex people.
Adeline W. Berry, Surya Monro
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Gradual, temperature-induced change of secondary sexual characteristics in Trichogramma pretiosum infected with parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Intersex is an intermediate stage of sexual differentiation in insects. Determining intersex morphology and the cause of its production will aid in the understanding of the mechanism of sexual differentiation in insects. In this paper, Wolbachia-infected
Su-fang Ning, Jin-cheng Zhou, Quan-quan Liu, Qian Zhao, Hui Dong   +4 more
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The Growing Visibility of Intersex Demands at the United Nations: A Review of the Treaty Bodies’ Concluding Observations

Social Sciences, 2023
In recent years, there has been an increasing visibility of intersex people’s issues and experiences of human rights violations amongst international human rights institutions and monitoring bodies. At the United Nations, to date, there are more than 500
Ernesto Zelayandia-Gonzalez
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Intersex Legal activism. United Nations on the Human Rights of Intersex People

Age of Human Rights Journal, 2022
For some years now, two intersex associations, Brújula Intersex and Stop Intersex Genital Mutilation, have been coordinating the participation in evaluation processes of the rights of intersex people convened by the United Nations. This article will try
Luisa Winter Pereira
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Intersex Stigma and Discrimination: Effects on Patient-Centred Care and Medical Communication

Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022
Individuals with intersex variations fall outside the normative sex binary of male and female for various reasons. These individuals are highly stigmatized and discriminated against in the legal, medical and social spheres.
Marilou Charron, Katie Saulnier, Nicole Palmour, Hortense Gallois, Yann Joly   +4 more
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Intersex [PDF]

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2014
Abstract This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies ...
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The Occurrence of Intersex in Different Populations of the Marine Amphipod Echinogammarus marinus in North-West Brittany – A Longterm-Study

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021
In the past two decades, an increasing body of studies has been published on the intersex phenomenon in separate-sexed crustaceans from marine and freshwater ecosystems.
Matthias Oetken, Marissa Adler, Katharina Alt, Jean Bachmann, Andrea Dombrowski, Franziska Duhme, Anna-Louise Gabriel, Judith Grünewald, Jonas Jourdan, Maren Lück, Carola Mensch, Dominik Rösch, Anna Ruthemann, Susanne Terres, Maja Lorina Völker, Ferdinand Wilhelm, Jörg Oehlmann   +16 more
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Unintelligibility, personhood and curriculum silences of intersex bodies in the Life Orientation high school classroom: A case study

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2022
Despite an increase in the research that promotes affirmative gender and sexual diversity in the South African Life Orientation (LO) education, there remains an uncomfortable silence on intersex bodies.
Anthony Brown
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