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Awareness, attitudes and acceptance among undergraduate students at king faisal university regarding intersex surgeries: an online survey [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Intersex surgery, formerly known as ‘sex correction’, is a medical procedure that aligns an individual’s physical characteristics with their assigned sex at birth.
Shahad Alshamrani +3 more
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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 Jones
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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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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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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 +4 more
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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 +4 more
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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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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 +16 more
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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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A principled ethical approach to intersex paediatric surgeries
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Surgery for intersex infants should be delayed until individuals are able to decide for themselves, except where it is a medical necessity. In an ideal world, this single principle would suffice and such surgeries could be totally prohibited ...
Kevin G. Behrens
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