Intersex
From Birth to Realisation
one of several articles
on the UK Intersex Association site
This is a very personal account. Quote: "I came into this world on the
17th April 1956.
From what I now know, no one knew what to make of me. The first two weeks
of my life I was a female. What happened after that is a complete mystery
as nobody is willing to talk to me about it."
Intersex and Gender Identity
by Mairi MacDonald
one of several articles
on the UK Intersex Association site
This short discussion centres around the suggestion that: "the idea that discrimination
and oppression indicate commonality of interests among those oppressed is wishful
thinking". Mairi MacDonald is specifically interested in the"set of contradictions
facing those who would try to combine the various interests of those within the
intersex, transsexual, transgendered and gay communities."
I am me and I am O.K.
by Michael Noble
one of several articles
on the UK Intersex Association site
Another personal story. The title is a good guide to the approach of this article.
Shifting the Paradigm of Intersex Treatment
by Alice Dreger
on the Intersex Society of North America site
This short piece compares the 'concealment centred model' with the 'patient
centred model'.
What's wrong with the way intersex has traditionally been treated?
on the Intersex Society of North America site
This short article is a good introduction to arguments about intersex issues.
It also provides links to further information.
Handbook for Parents (web pages) - also available as a pdf file
by the Consortium on Disorders of Sex Development
on the DSD Guidelines site
This is a 143 page book.
www.isja.org.uk doesn't normally list articles which,
like this one, are so specifically about a particular 'condition' (label,
diagnosis,
etc).
However, this handbook has (I think) an excellent approach in the way
it speaks to parents who have questions about their child's future
- an approach that might be useful in other fields of work. And a
good deal
of
what it says will be relevant to any parent's approach to their child.
Anyway, who can resist a booklet in which the authors have included photographs
of themselves as babies.
Good places to look for more
The social theory page of this site.