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Chapter 6 - The New Care Standard

from Section 2 - Medicalization and Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2022

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Chapter 6 summarizes the changes to medical care in recent years. There is now a greater recognition that the projected social and psychological challenges of genital variations cannot be fixed by surgery. The first international consensus statement on intersex was published in 2006. The statement makes a number of recommendations to improve care. Controversially however, a new term disorders of sex development (and, later, differences in sex development, or DSD) was introduced to replace intersex and hermaphroditism. Biotechnological developments have been advancing rapidly. More has been learned about “normal” and “abnormal” sex development. However, parents still struggle to talk to children about their bodily variations, young people still worry about getting into relationships, childhood genital surgery is still considered the only way out of stigmatization, psychological expertise is still a low priority in specialist services and the huge potential of peer support is not fully realized.

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Variations in Sex Development
Medicine, Culture and Psychological Practice
, pp. 81 - 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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