Category: healthcare
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The Erasure of Sexuality in the Health Care System
When was the last time you felt comfortable asking about your sexual health, or mentioning your sexual relationship, at the doctor’s office? Sexuality is always a potential part of healthcare – we don’t usually leave our feelings, our relationships, our reproductive choices or experiences, and all the other pieces that can be part of our…
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“Corrective” Surgery On Intersex Children is Medical Violence
These loving, affirming parents are suing the doctors who performed medically unnecessary surgery on their son before they met and adopted him. Their son was, like about one in two thousand children, born intersex. His doctors decided the baby should be a girl, and surgically altered his genitals to match this gender assignment. “MC” is…