Navigating the complexities of adult healthcare for individuals with variations of sex characteristics: From paediatric emergencies to a sense of abandonment
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