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Fixing bodies and shaping narratives: Epistemic injustice and the responses of medicine and bioethics to intersex human rights demands
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.
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK
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.