This paper explores how epistemic injustices and medical authority intersect to perpetuate purportedly beneficial medical procedures that have been deemed harmful by many of those who have experienced them and labeled as torture by the UN Special Rapporteur.
Too often, procedures are considered without regard to wider context beyond the body. This paper looks at erasure and exclusion of intersex people from social and inclusion policies in the United Kingdom and Ireland as an indirect result of invisibilising medical practices.
Since the 1960s, many intersex people are subjected to non-consensual genital surgery and other medical interventions in childhood to choose and forcibly define a binary sex for that person. Because of secretive medical approaches to intersex medical care, intersex medical knowledge is concentrated in paediatrics meaning that intersex people are often stripped of knowledgeable medical … Read more
This is an important and revealing paper exploring surgeons’ justifications for continued performance of non-consensual genital surgeries.
This paper takes a revealing look at disparities between theory and practice in the implementation of multiple disciplinary teams for intersex births, especially the lack of psychological supports.