{"id":8248,"date":"2022-06-10T03:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/id\/?post_type=product&#038;p=8248"},"modified":"2022-06-10T03:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:03:48","slug":"intersex-seeking-the-beauty-in-difference","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/id\/intersex-seeking-the-beauty-in-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersex: seeking the beauty in difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"standfirst\" class=\"article__standfirst\">Martha Henriques finds out what it\u2019s like growing up intersex and meets the people\u00a0fighting to improve intersex rights.<\/h4>\n<aside class=\"article__aside\">\n<div class=\"article__aside__section article__share-buttons\" role=\"group\">\n<p>t 13 years old, Sean Saifa Wall was admitted to hospital with pain in his groin. He says that he was given very little information about what might be causing it, and doctors didn\u2019t discuss different options for treatment with him. He was told that his testes had to be removed immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember before surgery\u2026 I asked the nurse what was going on, and [she] was saying that I have these gonads that need to be removed. I\u2019m 13 \u2013 I don\u2019t know what gonads are.\u201d The nurse told Saifa that it was because \u201cthey\u2019re not good\u201d. To Saifa it sounded logical: \u201cIf it\u2019s not good and it\u2019s in my body, it probably should be taken out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But today he still doesn\u2019t know what, if anything, was dangerous about keeping his testes or what was causing the pain.<\/p>\n<p>Not too long after the surgery, he remembers one conversation in particular: \u201cThe surgeon was talking about how he wanted to create a vagina. The way he described it\u2026 it sounded barbaric.\u201d Saifa says, recalling that he was sat in the surgeon\u2019s room in horror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mum was to my right\u2026 and I was probably turning green, and [she] looked at me and said, \u2018Do you want to go through with this?\u2019\u201d Saifa immediately said no. \u201cI remember the surgeon was saying, \u2018We\u2019re going to shave down the clitoris.\u2019 And I was like, this all sounds painful and horrible. I think, in that second, that one moment, that was what spared me from genital surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2006\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2082839\/\">Consensus Statement on Management of Intersex Disorders<\/a><\/em>, also known as the Chicago consensus.<\/li>\n<li>A 2012\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/justice\/discrimination\/files\/trans_and_intersex_people_web3_en.pdf\">European Commission report<\/a>\u00a0on discrimination against trans and intersex people. [PDF]<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fra.europa.eu\/en\/publication\/2015\/fundamental-rights-situation-intersex-people\">paper<\/a>, published by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2015, that examines the legal situation of intersex people from a fundamental rights perspective.<\/li>\n<li>The text of Malta\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/tgeu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Malta_GIGESC_trans_law_2015.pdf\">Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act<\/a><\/em>, passed in 2015. [PDF]<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iga.in.gov\/legislative\/2016\/bills\/house\/1242\">bill introduced by Ed Clere<\/a>\u00a0to the Indiana House of Representatives, which proposed preventing medically unnecessary gender assignment procedures being performed on intersex children while in the care of the state.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsdfamilies.org\/\">dsdfamilies<\/a>: A UK-based support group for families with children, teens and young adults who have a DSD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsdteens.org\/\">dsdteens<\/a>: A UK-based support group for teens and young adults with a DSD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aisdsd.org\/\">AIS-DSD Support Group<\/a>: A US-based support group for people of all ages with a DSD\/intersex condition.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga-europe.org\/\">ILGA-Europe<\/a>: A Brussels-based advocacy group \u2013 the European branch of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfaceproject.org\/\">Interface Project<\/a>: A collection of stories told by intersex people about their experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 750px; border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.visual-paradigm.com\/share\/book\/intersex-seeking-the-beauty-in-difference-zdsjoqszg?enforceShowPromotionBar=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8266,"template":"","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Intuitive online diagram maker - 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