Legal aspects and Standards of Care/IGM

[Dana Gold]

Here is additional background information about David in a presentation and further aspects of legalities/standards of care of intersexed/ infant genital surgery children by Duke University of Law. It is an older web-page (Summer 2003 publication) so it doesn't concern itself about David's death because it didn't happen yet. But the information and substance of the webpage may be enlightening to those who would like to know if any considerations are being taken in regard to standards of care for children born with ambiguous genitalia.


http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/gentoc9n1.htm

Under ARTICLES, click on informed consent/intersexed article by Patricia L. Martin

The subject is interspersed with other aspects of gender considerations, but the primary focus is on intersex.

PS: This may be "old news" to some, but new to some others.

[Emi]

Here's the list of other law papers related to intersex...

http://www.intersexinitiative.org/law/law-bibliography.html

and some discussion on legal issues:

http://www.intersexinitiative.org/law/

[Dana Gold]

Thank you, Emi, for the links....a lot of good material.:cool:

Dana

[Emi]

We'll have more... This summer we have an intern who is a law student and she's doing a lot of legal researches. Some of the reports coming soon are:

* Parental right to consent: legal restrictions in case law--implications of rulings on 1) parental refusal for child's medical treatment for religious reason; 2) parent making one child donate an organ to another child; 3) parent volunteering child for medical testing that has no benefit to the child; etc.

* Applicability of disability discrimination: intersex is often conflated with queerness or transgenderism/transsexualism, which makes intersex discrimination case more complicated than the regular disability discrimination case. We'll review HIV/AIDS discrimination cases, which also is disability discrimination cases that are conflated with queerness and "immoral" behaviors.

* Implication of genetic information availability: review of Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act.

If you have other legal topics that you think we should research, let us know--we have a law student working for us! :-)