CAH

Intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI

5 February 2012

MORGAN, OII Australia board member, wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne on 4 February 2012. The conference marked the fortieth anniversary of Dennis Altman’s book Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. The 10-minute presentation was delivered as part of a curated panel on intersectionalities. Introduction I’d like to pay my respects [...]

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Intersex remains unsaid, CAH blamed, in Kathleen Worrall murder & death in custody case

28 September 2011

THE media reporting on this story make much of the late Ms Worrall having been born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, a natural biological variation that can underlie being intersex. So much is made of her CAH that it almost seems as if this variation is being blamed for her death and for the murder of [...]

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Cary Costello on the nature of intersex genital variations

30 April 2011

DR Cary Gabriel Costello’s always excellent The Intersex Roadshow is continuing the cause of education in intersex variations with its latest article, Intersex Genitalia Illustrated and Explained. He writes: I want to help lift the veil of medically-enforced secrecy that makes our bodies We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge [...]

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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism: “Approach to Assigning Gender in 46,XX Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia with Male External Genitalia: Replacing Dogmatism with Pragmatism”

14 October 2010

THE goal of sex assignment is to facilitate the best possible quality of life for the patient. Factors such as reproductive system development, sexual identity, sexual function, and fertility are important considerations in this regard. Although some DSD gender assignments are relatively straightforward, those with midstage genital ambiguity and unclear gonadal function represent a major [...]

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Endocrine Abstracts: “A 30 years review of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in Northern Ireland”

11 October 2010

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is an autosomal recessive condition with significant consequences if not correctly diagnosed and treated. We have reviewed the patients with CAH presenting in Northern Ireland between 1976 and 2010. Aims: To determine the age, sex and clinical features at presentation; treatment modalities including perineal surgery in childhood; and long-term outcomes [...]

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CARES Foundation: Letter to David J. Skorton, Cornell University

5 October 2010

DEAR President Skorton: Re: Panel Discussion Aimed at Limiting Treatment Options for CAH Patients We are deeply troubled that Cornell University has granted permission to a group of activists whose, only goal, from past actions, is to personally attack Dr. Dix Poppas, a highly-respected and world-renowned pediatric urologist specializing in surgical reconstruction in girls with [...]

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The Star: “Complaints against Caster Semenya ‘total sour grapes’”

25 August 2010

A transgender Toronto cyclist who helped South African runner Caster Semenya get reinstated lashed out Monday at complaints against her return — including a remark by Canadian Diane Cummins that it was like “running against a man.” Kristen Worley, who attempted to become the first transgender Olympian at the 2008 Beijing Games, was responding to [...]

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JOY 94.9: Freshly Doug, 19th August 2010

19 August 2010
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Sydney Morning Herald: “‘Anti-lesbian’ treatment”

19 August 2010

A hormonal treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered to women who may be carrying a foetus with the rare disorder. It is not without health risks but, to its critics, they are of small consequence compared with this notable side effect: the treatment also might reduce the likelihood that a female with [...]

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Psychology Today: “Could homosexual genes be naturally selected?”

17 August 2010

SCIENTIFIC discovery has a way of shattering our preconceptions whether we are scientists or not. That is certainly true of homosexuality. As Psychology Today recently reported, biologists, who long ago concluded that homosexuality could not have been favored by natural selection are being forced to revise their views from two perspectives: evidence of gay genes [...]

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[Opinion] Jo Proctor: Neo-Eugenics and Its War Against Human Biological Diversity

17 August 2010

Author: Jo Proctor, board member, OII Australia NEO-EUGENICS or ‘new eugenics’ is the term given to modern medicine’s rapidly evolving biotechnological ability to identify and terminate a raft of congenital variations at increasingly early stages of fetal development.

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CARES Foundation: “Surgery Consideration for Girls with Classical CAH”

2 August 2010

SO you have just been told that your baby girl has a genetic disorder called Classical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. You are scared, confused, and upset. Aside from the medical aspects of the disease (adrenal crisis), the need for medication and careful medical monitoring for the rest of her life, you are now confronted with the [...]

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