Pathologization and Human Rights: our Submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

After the Intersex Resolution was passed last year,  the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights asked for submissions addressing the root causes for stigma, discrimination and violence against intersex people. We focused our response in one of the oldest, more pervasive and more dangerous of those root causes: pathologization.
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Global bioethics statement calls for end to medically unnecessary intersex surgeries

The American Journal of Bioethics has published a global bioethics consensus statement, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and with contributions made by more than 150 international experts from more than 24 countries, including IHRA’s own Dr Morgan Carpenter and Mauro Cabral Grinspan.