Associated Press needs some education

[miriam]

Associated Press is saying that for intersex conditions the same surgery is used as for transsexual people. A clear example of a journalist who has no idea what an intersex condition is.

Groeten, Miriam

Transsexual Marriage: Facts and figures
By Associated Press
Sunday, January 23, 2005

THE LEGAL ISSUE: Transsexuals, through a legal Catch-22, can occasionally enter into valid same-sex marriages in states that ban such unions. If a state recognizes a person's new gender after a sex change, existing, heterosexual marriages can become same-sex. Not recognizing a person's new gender permits new marriages between spouses whose genders differ only on paper, not visibly.

THE RAMIFICATIONS: States have split on the issue, meaning a post-operative transsexual can be male in one state, female in another. One state may only permit them to marry men, another only women.

THE CATEGORIES: Transsexuals, who feel their birth genders are incorrect, aren't the only people doctors treat through sex-change surgeries. The operations also treat "intersex" conditions, including improperly formed genitalia.

HOW MANY: There is no reliable estimate of the number of transsexual marriages nationwide. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Washington, D.C., estimates that as many as one in 12,000 adult men and one in 30,000 adult women are transsexual.

TREATMENT: Conservative and gay-rights groups differ on whether transsexuals have a physical condition requiring surgery or a mental health condition requiring only therapy. Medical research on transsexuals is continuing.


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