TV interview with pediatric urologists on intersexuality

[Aloysius]

I was channel surfing earlier this evening when I tuned into "One on One," a forum out of New Jersey hosted by one Steve Adubato. Tonight's topic was intersexuality, and Mr. A was interviewing Drs. Terry W. Hensle and Elizabeth Reiley. The URL for more information - including a videocassette of the program - is http://www.caucusnj.org/one-on-one/shows/hensle-reiley.asp (http://)

For the most part, the two doctors seemed to express old-school attitudes about the proper reaction to, and treatment of, intersex in infants: Someone who is phenotypically female but genetically male (or who has male gonads is male. And vice-versa. Ambiguous genitalia in a newborn is cause for panic. Surgery is the be-all and end-all. Ever-improving surgical techniques justify their usage. And so forth.

Drs. Hensle and Reiley are married. He's on the faculty of Columbia, as shown here:
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/urology/faculty/TH.html (http://).

She's due to appear in the near future at a conference that will include panels on intersex issues: http://www.espu.org/ola/session_view.php?mid=2&sid=14 (http://)

[Betsy]

I'll look forward to checking out the links you supplied Aloysius.

For what it is worth, there is only one other person I know of named Aloysius and he is my dad. When I saw your name registered, my heart stopped for a mere moment wondering why in the world would my dad have registered and then comprehended the fact that he is completely useless with a computer. For what it is worth, you are in good company with the name.

Welcome to BLO.

Betsy
--what exit?

[Betsy]

Hmmmph. What was the tone of the program? I sure wish I knew it was on as I would have watched it.

I'm not sure why your links didn't work but I hope you don't mind me reposting them. I suspect it has something to do with the way the forum parses them.

http://www.caucusnj.org/one-on-one/shows/hensle-reiley.asp which is the show.

http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/urology/faculty/TH.html is the url for Hensle

and the European Society for Pediatric Urology is at http://www.espu.org/ although I am unsure which conference Reiley is at. I did find it interesting that our "friend" Lawrence Baskin is appearing at one of their forthcoming events. Gee, I wonder if he will talk about his defeat in SF recently?

[nimo6211]

Catchy title Betsy :-D So now we know you like snails and birds (no pun intended) :angel_smi

[nimo6211]

OOps! Sorry, this should go in the "tits" thread. :embaresse