EINSTEIN ASSOCIATION OF GAYS, LESBIANS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENDERS (EAGLBT),

The Bronx Lesbian & Gay Health Resource Consortium, and The Office of the Associate Dean for Educational Affairs Present:
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First, Stop the Harm: Intersexuality in the 21st Century
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Betsy Driver and Janet Green, co-founders of the international intersex peer support organization Bodies Like Ours.

Kate Chittendon, researcher of intersex health

>Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003
>Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
>Venue: 1st floor Forchheimer lecture hall
>Albert Einstein College of Medicine
>1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY 10461

At least one in 2000 children is born with notably atypical sexual anatomy otherwise known as an intersex condition. During this program, intersex individuals patients will share their own stories about growing up intersexed, and will discuss the critical importance of ending the secrecy and the medically unnecessary genital surgery that has been the routine standard of care for intersex people. A new, patient centered protocol for dealing with intersex newborns will be discussed. This approach includes that full and accurate information be given to parents and that appropriate referrals be made, including to support groups of adult intersex people and their families.

Total Patient Care--Caring for the Intersex Infant will be screened.
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>----Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.----
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>****IDs will be checked prior to entry into the bldg.****
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>contact eaglbt@aecom.yu.edu for more information

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