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Tufts Daily: Elisha Sum | Our Genderation – Not my daughter, you…

2 March 2010

Though hard to believe, genital mutilation has been happening in the United States for quite some time. Of course, the prominent discourse has not framed the repeated medical procedures as such, in part due to ignorance and to avoid the acknowledgment of the infringement of human rights. Read more »

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The Wall Street Journal: Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy

1 March 2010

Where is psychiatry headed? What the discipline badly needs is close attention to patients and their individual symptoms, in order to carve out the real diseases from the vast pool of symptoms that DSM keeps reshuffling into different “disorders.” This kind of careful attention to what patients actually have is called “psychopathology,” and its absence [...] Read more »

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OII Petition to International Olympic Committe regarding Intersex Athletes

25 February 2010

We, the undersigned, support the members of the Organisation Intersex International, in their demands that:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandon its demands that female athletes with intersex variations have their variations diagnosed and treated.
The IOC allow the above mentioned athletes, known as intersex women, to compete as females without having to undergo diagnosis or “treatment.”
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The Good Doctors

23 February 2010

Not every doctor wants to cut up the genitals of intersex newborns in a vain bid to ‘cure’ their intersex once and for all. Read more »

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Dr Maria New directed the recent DSD conference in Florida

23 February 2010

Dr Maria New, who has been experimenting on unborn 46, XX CAH babies with the dangerous drug dexamethasone aka dex, was one of two course directors of the 2nd World Conference, Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders and Hot Topics in Endocrinology.
This conference was the one where doctors made their pronouncement that the [...] Read more »

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Bioethics Forum: Why I am Suspicious of Bioethics

20 February 2010

I fear that the campaign to hold the main propagator of the dexamethasone treatment accountable would, if not accompanied by sustained challenges to more fundamental problems with this treatment, also result in creating a more “ethical” means of continuing the treatment  -  that is, a means that complies better with the established procedures and codes [...] Read more »

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OII’s Position Statement on the Use of Dexamethasone during Pregnancy

18 February 2010

Online at:
http://www.intersexualite.org/dex.html
We, the board members of the Organisation Intersex International, wish to express our support of Drs. Feder, Dreger and Lindemann, for their vigilance and efforts to ensure the safety of intersex infants and their mothers who are currently being prescribed dexamethasone.
We share their concerns about this experimental use of dexamethasone currently underway in the [...] Read more »

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Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Position Statement: DSM-V Draft, February 2010

16 February 2010

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently rewriting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This will be its fifth full revision. http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
The DSM sets out the diagnostic criteria for all mental illness recognized by the APA.
Countries outside America use the DSM widely. Australia is one such country. Australian psychiatrists contribute to the DSM and use [...] Read more »

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Eugenics in action against intersex

12 February 2010

Recent news articles have alerted OII to new genetic testing procedures. These procedures are aimed at expectant parents. They offer the prospect of a flawless child. That prospect can only be realized by eliminating those embryos that come along with less than perfect genes.
OII supposes abortion is the method that would be used to facilitate [...] Read more »

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Patient advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies

11 February 2010

Patient Advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies from Matthew Mikkelsen on Vimeo.
Editorial comment:
It continues to amaze us just how naive Alice Dreger, Bo Laurent aka Cheryl Chase and their associates in the late ISNA (Intersex Society of North America) appear to be. Read more »

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fetaldex.org Letter of Concern From Bioethicists

11 February 2010

The following letter has been sent to:

the FDA Office of Pediatric Therapeutics;
the HHS Office for Human Research Protections;
Mount Sinai Medical Center (Dr. New’s current institution);
Weill Medical School of Cornell University (from which much of this treatment appears to have been administered, under Dr. New’s guidance);
Florida International University (where Dr. New is [...] Read more »

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Bioethics Forum: Fetal Cosmetology

10 February 2010

There’s a common misperception that, now that the Johns Hopkins psychologist John Money is gone, so are all the ethical problems with the way people with genital anomalies are treated. Not so. Read more »

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