Amid growing bioethical and human rights concerns over nontherapeutic infant male circumcision, calls have been made to investigate long-term impacts on the men these infants eventually become. The present inquiry attempts to identify factors contributing to concerns of men claiming dissatisfaction with or ascribing harm from neonatal circumcision. This large sample size survey involved an onli...

In recent years, there has been an increasing visibility of intersex people’s issues and experiences human rights violations amongst international institutions monitoring bodies. At the United Nations, to date, are more than 500 treaty bodies’ concluding observations taking notice abuses against persons calling member states fulfil their obligations. This paper follows inclusion in text Nations...

Best practice guidelines for psychologists working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer+ (LGBTIQ+) people position statements against “conversion therapies” have been published internationally. These call professional psychologist education to develop competence work this community, but studies show variability lack of inclusion LGBTIQ+ content in programmes higher inst...

Intersex variations render a person’s body different from both normative male and female embodiment. Medical intervention on infants’ intersex traits is long standing, common, contested for breaching human rights to bodily integrity self-determination. Such justified by the threat of unbearable social stigma, but empirical studies stigma public understanding are lacking. Here, U.K. U.S. partici...

Thirty five children with ambiguous genitalia admitted to our centre between January 1986 to December 1991, were followed up and their clinical, laboratory and management strategies were analyzed. Most of them presented between 1 month and 2 years of age and only 2 presented in the newborn period. Sixteen were female pseudohermaphrodites. Eighteen out of 31 children were assigned female sex. On...

The existence of people who are neither ‘all male’ nor ‘all female’ has long been recognized in many societies and, with the advent of scientific medicine in European societies in the 19th century, effort has been directed at determining the ‘true sex’ of such individuals [5]. Taxonomy was a new and exciting intellectual activity, and cases of ‘doubtful sex’ were a challenge to science and medi...