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ABC's National (The) Health Report http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/default.htm
Recent Stories and Audio
Monday 25 February 2002
Listen to the whole program.

Boy or Girl?
Boy or girl? This is one of the first questions new parents are asked. But sometimes it's not so clear. This program looks at the wide variety of intersex conditions, and the dilemmas faced by doctors, patients and parents when they have to make the choice - boy or girl. At what stage in the child's life should the choice be made? And does the choice have to be made at all?

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Frequency: How Common Are Intersex People?

Medical Questions about Intersexuality

* What is intersexuality?

* How common is intersexuality?

* How do I know if I am Intersexed?

* How do I obtain my old medical record?

* What is androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)?

* What is partial androgen insensitivity syndrome?

* What is Progestin induced virilization?

* What is adrenal hyperplasia?

* What is Klinefelter's syndrome?

* What is HYPOSPADIAS?

* Is there a risk of gonadal tumors?

* What do I need to know about osteoporosis?


Medical Treatment of Intersexuality

* ISNA's general Recommendations for treatment of intersexed children

* "'Ambiguous sex'--or ambivalent medicine?" Alice Domurat Dreger 1998, from The Hastings Center Report.

* Management of Intersexuality: Guidelines for dealing with persons with ambiguous genitalia. Diamond, Milton and H. Keith Sigmundson. 1997, from Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 151: 1046-1050.

* ISNA's Hypospadias: A parents guide to surgery.

 

Late Victorian Period

1900-1950

  • Money, John. 1952. Hermaphroditism: An Inquiry into the Nature of a Human Paradox. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge (444 pages). Can be ordered directly from Harvard University's Widener Library for about $100. Contains discussion of numerous published cases for the period. 
 

1920s-1930s

  • Kenen, Stephanie Hope. 1998. Scientific Studies of Human Sexual Difference in Interwar America. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley. Can be easily and inexpensively ordered online from UMI Dissertation Services as publication number 9902118.

1950s to 2000

  • Jorge Daaboul (Director, Pediatric Endocrinology, Children's Hospital of Oakland) delivered a key talk to the American Association for History of Medicine's annual conference (Bethesda, May 2000), In "Does the Study of History Affect Clinical Practice? Intersex as a Case Study: The Physician's View," 

From Aristotle to the present day

  • Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Human Sexuality. New York: Basic Books.

 

Suggested Guidelines for Non-Intersex Individuals Writing about Intersexuality and Intersex People

by Emi Koyama

 

GenderPAC Presents
The 2nd Annual National Conference on Gender
and
7th annual National Gender Lobby Day

3 Days of Gender Politics, Strategy and Policy

May 18–20, 2002 in Washington, DC
1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009

 
When Dr. Wm G. Heard (San Juan Capistrano) asked a group of Transsexuals in march of 1980, which sex they wanted to be born, they told him male or female, depending on which gender they wanted to be.
When he asked me, I told him, I only wanted to be ONLY one sex/gender and not know the difference.
 

 

UK Intersex Association (UKIA)
MANAGEMENT of INTERSEXUALITY
A Few Causes

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Some users have complained that they cannot access the ISNA ORG website. ( http://www.isna.org/ ) 

Any internet provider with ADULT (XXX) blocking software installed, will block your access to intersex, gender and trans sites. So we put up some of the pages from the www.isna.org website. (15 in all)

 

General Intersex Information/ Groups  [1]
Notes on the Treatment of Intersex  [1]
Answers to Questions about Gender  [1]
Frequently Asked Questions   [1]
titles hermaphrodite vs intersexed  [1]
How Common Are Intersex Conditions?  [1]
Medical Treatment  [1]

 

 

 

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How many kinds of sex are there? 
Two, single sexed and plural sexed.

How many races are there?
Two- male, female. 
                                       OR
Three -male,  female and Intersexed.
                DEPENDING ON THE VIEWPOINT.

 

Intersexed Topics


Some users have complained that they cannot access the ISNA ORG website. ( http://www.isna.org/ ) Any internet provider with ADULT (XXX) blocking software installed, will block your access to intersex, gender and trans sites. So we put up some of the pages from the ISNA.ORG website. (15 in all). ISNA ORG

 


Some of the causes of intersexed conditons. CAH, AIS, PAIS, PIA, DES, KS (XXY), SWS, MRKH

 

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