Intersex: Health Resources

The links below contain documents, reports and information relating to health issues and intersex people.

• The Nation – Why Intersex Patients Need the Truth and Doctors Need to Listen (Article) – https://www.thenation.com/article/why-intersex-patients-need-the-truth-and-doctors-need-to-listen/
• Psychology Today – Born Both: Intersex and Happy (Article) – https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-and-happiness/201705/born-both-intersex-and-happy#_=_
• OII USA – Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents (Brochure, PDF) – http://www.intersexequality.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/One-sheet_Your-Beautiful-Child.pdf
• North American Society For Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology – NASPAG Position Statement on Surgical Management of DSD (Report, PDF) – http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.naspag.org/resource/resmgr/pdf’s/NASPAG_Statement_on_DSD_PES_.pdf
• American Medical Student Association – AMSA Issues Statement To Defer Gender “Normalizing” Surgeries For Children Born As Intersex (Report) – https://www.amsa.org/about/amsa-press-room/amsa-issues-statement-defer-gender-normalizing-surgeries-children-born-intersex/
• GLMA Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality – Medical and Surgical Intervention of Patients with Differences in Sex Development (Report, pdf) – http://glma.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document.viewdocument&ID=CEB9FEE4B8DD8B7F4F7575376BD476C3A433379DD853BEA17913AFCCB8270299C0731320B03D2F5E1022F1C15602FBEA
• Palm Center – Re-Thinking Genital Surgeries on Intersex Infants (Report, PDF) – http://www.palmcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Re-Thinking-Genital-Surgeries-1.pdf
• Physicians for Human Rights – Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children Must Stop – http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/press/press-releases/intersex-surgery-must-stop.html?referrer=http://www.intersexequality.com/physicians-for-human-rights-call-for-moratorium-on-nonconsensual-intersex-surgeries/