But some doctors and bioethicists argue that calling intersex surgeries “torture” could end up doing more harm than good for kids born with ambiguous genitalia. This week the United Nations convened its first meeting to address the issue of human rights violations against people with ambiguous genitalia, also known as intersex. The UN Human Rights […]
When Teenage Girls Find Out They’re Genetically Male For Stephanie, telling a partner about her male chromosomes was never a problem—mainly because her first doctor didn’t even tell her about them. Now 43, the South Carolina resident was diagnosed with “under-developed ovaries” at the age of 16 and had them removed. When she and her […]
Biology that isn’t binary BY MICAELA CORN WITH ERICA LLOYD Spring 2015 “When I look back, I can see that [change] is happening,” she says. “It always seems very slow while you’re doing it, but it’s such a different world from when my family was young, and I’m very grateful for that.” – See […]
MTV’s Faking It, which premiered in April of 2014, seemed like a show crafted entirely on a flimsy gimmick: Two teen girls, tired of their status as high school nobodies, pretend to be lesbians to become popular and get elected homecoming queens… …Where Faking It has indisputably broken new ground is with the character of […]
Medicine: Disorders of Sex Development When delivery room doctors can’t answer a seemingly simple question—“Is it a boy or a girl?”—families head to a specialty clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado. BY RACHEL STURTZ JULY 2015 -photo by James O’Brien Click here to read this article.
Meet 13 Emerging Leaders in Social Justice Selected as Arcus Fellows Get to know the 2015 Arcus Foundation Fellows who are on their way to becoming tomorrow’s diversity leaders. Every year, the Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, chooses early-stage executive directors of LGBT and allied nonprofit […]
Huffington Post: By LINDSEY TANNER Posted: 04/17/2015 12:19 pm EDT Updated: 04/17/2015 12:59 pm EDT CHICAGO (AP) — She was born to a young Chicago couple, named Jennifer, and grew into a beautiful long-lashed child with wavy dark hair, big brown eyes and a yearning, youthful desire to be just like all the other girls. […]
Faking It showrunner Carter Covington told me that the intersex element was born because they wanted a storyline worthy of the acting talents of Bailey DeYoung (Ginny on the late, lamented Bunheads), who plays Lauren. “The show is called Faking It, and we said, ‘Well, what is a secret she could have?’ ” Mostly, though, […]
This Video Explains What It’s Like — And What It Isn’t Like — To Be Intersex By Marcie Bianco March 30, 2015 Just what does it mean to be intersex? A new BuzzFeed video, “What It’s Like to Be Intersex,” is attempting to help the public better understand this “biological variation” and combat stigma around intersex identity. In […]
FEBRUARY 23, 2015 ~ SOCIETY FOR ENDOCRINOLOGY As part of our charitable remit, the Society for Endocrinology has the pleasure of supporting and promoting the work of a number of patient support groups. This blog post is written by Ellie Magritte from the on-line resource dsdfamilies.org which supports families, children and young people living with a disorder/difference of sex development (DSD). As the […]
