Intersex Report Resource Info

The San Francisco Human Rights Commission has released the long-awaited, "A Human Rights
Investigation in the Medical "Normalization" of Intersex People"
.  Issued on May 3, 2005, the report caps years of work and is the result of a public hearing held on May 27, 2004. 

At that public hearing, many people with intersex testified, as did their family members along with medical professionals and ethicists.

We have put together this resource section to help journalists and others try to decipher some of the information in it and determine what it really means.  We hope this will help you understand more about the report process, about intersex, and Bodies Like Ours.

As people read it and question it, we will compile an FAQ section for you to help you learn more and how it may possibly affect you if you have a child with intersex or are intersex yourself.

The report:  A Human Rights Investigation into the Medical "Normalization" of Intersex People"   download the report. (928kb, PDF) External link will download the report from the website of the SFHRC.


Video of the May 27th, 2004 public hearing.  External link will take you to the SFGTV website.  You can watch a small resolution video of the public hearing online or purchase a dvd or vhs copy of it.


Bodies Like Ours summary of the report (May 3, 2005)


Bodies Like Ours statement about the report (May 3, 2005)


Bodies Like Ours news release about the report (May 3, 2005)


San Francisco Human Rights Commission (SF HRC) news release (May 3, 2005)


What the Bodies Like Ours community is saying about the report



Other information:


What the heck is intersex anyways? Rather than redesigning the wheel, we recommend you check out the Wikipedia entry on the subject at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

Some tips on language and definitions that may be helpful for journalists

Story ideas. Some ideas on how to flesh out this story now that you have the hook (Betsy Driver, our ED is a journalist by training and still freelances in the business, usually in non-editorial positions now that she has found herself in an activist roll.)


More about Bodies Like Ours


Facts and figures about this website (compiled February 2005)



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