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INTERSEX ACTIVISTS AND SUPPORTERS TO PROTEST LIVE MUTILATION SHOW
Bodies Like Ours, our friends from New Jersey, is organizing an "educational protest" against intersex genital mutilation this Friday, September 26th. The timing coincides with a scheduled surgery on a child that will be viewed by hordes of medical professionals for CME credits. According to the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, which hosts the event, Dr. Richard Rink of Indiana University School of Medicine will give a grand rounds on September 25th about "feminizing genitoplasty and total urogenital mobilization," followed by the live demonstration of the actual procedure the next day.
If you live near Hartford, CT or know of someone who do, come join the action! For more information, please see:
http://www.bodieslikeours.org/actionalert.html
http://www.ipdx.org/news/000051.html
Here are other recent news from ipdxWIRE Intersex News:
REUTERS STORY ABOUT POST-VAGINOPLASTY SEXUAL FUNCTION MISLEADING
"Sex Life Normal for Women with Rebuilt Vagina" is the headline of the Reuters Health news story dated September 12, 2003, but its interpretation of the study the article is based on is inaccurate. The Reuters story states that "an artificial vagina... can lead to a normal sex life for women with an uncommon disorder in which the organ is missing, new research suggests." However, this is not the conclusion of the research, which is published in the September 2003 issue of Fertility and Sterility.
Read more at: http://www.ipdx.org/news/000047.html
"INTERSEX INITIATIVE JAPAN" WEBSITE LAUNCHED
On September 19, Intersex Initiative launches "Intersex Initiative Japan," a comprehensive Japanese web site about intersexuality and intersex activism. Intersex Initiative Japan is maintained by a special project team made up of five Japanese scholars and activists in addition to the Intersex Initiative director, who lives in Portland, Oregon. The site currently contains materials translated from the English site, but the project team hopes to develop Japanese-specific contents in the future.
Read more at: http://www.ipdx.org/news/000048.html
WASHINGTON TIMES IS CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT WE ARE CRITICIZING
There is a strange article in the September 19 edition of The Washington Times, in which the paper brings up the recent criticisms of unwanted genital surgeries on intersex children as an example of the "intense criticism" that the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is supposedly facing for funding sex researches, as if cutting funds to NICHD would magically stop surgeries. The reality, of course, is the opposite: researches that investigate the long-term consequences of surgical treatments or that explores alternative treatment models can only help our cause. The only connection that the reporter seems to draw is that the surgical treatment was pioneered by John Money from Johns Hopkins University, who also happened to be a major recipient of NICHD grants.
Read more at: http://www.ipdx.org/news/000049.html
EXPERTS IN TRANSGENDER MEDICINE SHOW SOME INTEREST IN INTERSEX
Over 300 transsexual and transgender people and the professionals who work with them gathered in Ghent, Belgium for four days last week for the 18th International Symposium of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA). HBIGDA is particularly influential in transsexual medicine, as it produces the treatment guideline known as the "standard of care" that majority of physicians use in determining who can receive hormone and surgical interventions designed to help transsexual people "transition" to their preferred gender/sex. Over the last couple of years, there have been an increased interest in intersexuality within HBIGDA, although to this date HBIGDA seem to have made miniscule effort to dialogue with intersex activist groups.
Read more at: http://www.ipdx.org/news/000050.html
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