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News
Items Of Interest
When news items
of relevance to people with Bodies Like Ours are published, links
to them or summaries and citations will be reprinted here.
Please check
back to this page often, and don't forget to also check the research
pages for other recent research and papers that people with
bodies like ours may find interesting. You will also find more news
of interest in the Recent
Events area. If you have news to share or know of some we should
include in this space
please write us. Also, please visit the Intersex
Initiative website for more news.
For news from
2002, please
click here. (2003 items are still on this page for now)
September
2004
- The NY Times
has an excellent article, including interviews with Betsy Driver,
Cheryl Chase of ISNA, medical professionals, and parents. Read
it as a PDF (44kb)
- Soundprint
program from 09/03/2004 features interviews with several woman
with AIS. Listen
on-line
- GenderTalk
featured a program about intersex issues on 09/28/2004. Interviewed
were Alice Dreger of ISNA and Betsy Driver of Bodies Like Ours.
Listen
to the show online.
August
2004
- Alice Dreger
of ISNA is interviewed by the Detroit Free Press. Read
it online
- Interview
with Betsy Driver and others, including Deb Hartman in the Bergen
(NJ) Record. N/A
June
2004
- Al Franken,
comedian, author, and talk
show host on Air America apologizes under pressure from intersex
people and their allies. Read
about it in our forums. The action generated coverage on Nerve.com
as well as in other online outlets.
- Slate magazine,
an online media outlet owned by Microsoft, published a an article
about surgery issues by Claudia Kolker. Read
it.
- Seven Oaks,
an online magazine based in Canada has an interview with Alice
Dreger. Read
it.
- Interview
with Betsy Driver in the online publication The
Cheers
May
2004
- Elijah Hobbs,
board member of Bodies Like Ours and Betsy Driver are interviewed
on WUSA TV 9 in Washington, DC. We are amazed the reporter got
it right in just a minute thirty. Watch
the interview (requires windows media player)
- Gay.com and
Planet Out covers the SF Human Rights Commission hearing. Read
the story.
- Betsy Driver
was quoted in an article on Planet
Out about the untimely death of David Reimer.
- Emi Koyama
of Intersex Initiative had a letter published in the Hastings
Center Report. You can download
a PDF of it. The original article is available online
here at Bodies Like Ours also as a PDFand you can read Emi's
original commentary about it at Intersex
Initiative.
April
2004
- Betsy Driver
had a letter to the editor published in several news outlets,
most notably the LA Times regarding a commentary that was written
by UCLA geneticist Eric Vilain which failed to recognize the true
issues facing intersex people. Neither is available online without
registration (http://www.latimes.com)
- Bodies Like
Ours Board Member Peter Trinkl and ISNA Board Member were interviewed
for an article published in the Sacremento
Bee. Also interviewed was Julia, a sometimes poster here at
Bodies Like Ours
- The Swedish
magazine ETC nr 2/2004 (www.etc.se)
have published a large article (p. 46 - 51) featuring interviews
with both Betsy (p 50 - 51) and Pia, a Swedish IS person, as well
as with doctors and other people involved with the title:
"Svenska
barn könsstympas" (Swedish children are being genitically
mutilated). However, the perspective in the article is mainly
from an intersexed point of view. (we never received a translated
copy but I understand it was good!)
- Bodies Like
Ours poster Miriam and intersex acitivist in the Netherlands was
interviewed on Radio
Netherlands
- Betsy Driver
profiled in article published in an online news source, Gay
South Florida
- Tony Briffa
of AIISK-AU had a letter to the science journal Nature published,
"Intersex Surgery Disregards Children's Human Rights"
You can download a PDF of it.
March
2004
March
2004
- Bodies Like
Ours Board Member was profiled in Time Magazine. This article
is not available on line.
January
2004
December,
2003
- Bodies Like
Ours online community member/poster Jules interviewed in the
Newton Tab about her presentation to high school students.
September,
2003
- Betsy
Driver
and Bodies Like Ours was featured in a front
page article in the The Hartford Courant. The article was an advance
piece published the morning of our Hartford action. Read
the article.
September,
2003
- In
Made in God’s Image: A Resource for Dialogue about the Church
and Gender Differences Author Ann Thompson Cook communicates
a gently assertive expectation that we as Christians need to get
up to speed on something too rarely discussed but very important
for the life of the church and its ministries. Combining valuable
information, personal sharing, and resources, this booklet is
a perfect starting place for any congregation, family, or individual
seeking to better understand transgender issues and to provide
a supportive environment for all of God’s children. Visit
their website for more info.
July-August,
2003
June,
2003
May,
2003
- NY
Times, May 27, 2003 If Biology is Destiny, When Shouldn't It Be?
Dr. Barron
H. Lerner recently published an article in the New York Times
about intersex issues and the controversy surrounding treatment,
including the lack of data regarding appropriate care and the
need for continued research. While Lerner cites recent studies
showing the harmful effects of surgery, such as the Minto et al.
study (link here), he also quotes Dr. Kenneth Glassberg, who suggests
that not performing surgery on intersex infants is “more
of an experiment” than surgery itself. The article can be
accessed here. Read
the article at ISNA (PDF) Courtesy of ISNA.
- Maclean's,
May 26, 2003, Gender Paradoxes (MacLean's
is a Canadian publication) contains an excellent article on intersex
alongside several other articles on gender in the May 26 issue.
The article features people with intersex conditions (including
ISNA's founding director Cheryl Chase) and offers a fairly accurate
and balanced take on the medical debate surrounding "treatment."
Read
the article online.
- Girlfriends
Magazine, May 2003. Born Between Two Sexes.
Girlfriends Magazine, a best-selling lesbian magazine publishes
an article in their May, 2003 issue about "...the Nascent
Intersex Movement" that is being led mostly by women. The
article puts much of it's focus on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.
Interviewed for this article was Janet Green of Bodies Like Ours,
along with Monica Casper and Thea Hillman, both of ISNA. Look
for the issue with Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the cover. Read
the article online.
March,
2003
- Redbook
Magazine, March 2003, The Secret No Doctor Would Tell Me.
Anonymous, as told to Judy Dutton. Check your local library (it's
the issue with Halle Barry on the cover)
March,
2003
- Ellen
K. Feder, 2002, "Doctor's Orders: Parents and Intersexed
Children." Pp. 294-320 in The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives
on Dependency, edited by Eva Feder Kittay and Ellen K. Feder.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Dr.
Ellen K. Feder, of American University, has written
an excellent and important chapter on parents and intersexed
children in a volume on care and dependency. The work is significant
in that it is the first account of intersex based on interviews
with parents. Dr. Feder argues that the isolation of parents
and medicine's failure to take account of their experiences
is unfortunate; but more than that, parents' isolation and
confusion are built into the treatment process itself.
Unlike other situations in which parents with disabled children
are provided access to resources and support groups, the parents
of children with intersex conditions are treated instrumentally,
primarily as the source of informed consent to support a doctor's
decision. Parents are not given crucial information about
their child's condition and are not connected to important
social and psychological resources. The end result is that
while parents attempt to do the best they can for their children,
their decisions are shaped within a medical context that privileges
expert knowledge over full disclosure, and normalization over
a child's future sensation and qualify of life. **Abstract
courtesy of Monica Casper, ISNA.
- Read
the article on-line.
03/05/2003
- Born Between
Two Sexes. The Online Sun. UK A candid article with Melissa
Cull, the founder of an UK CAH organization. Read
the article.
02/01/2003
- Emi Koyama
from the Intersex Initiative Portland has had a paper published
in the Fall/Winter 2003 issue of Women's Studies Quarterly. Here
is the synopsis from IPDX.org:
This paper, published in the Fall/Winter 2002 issue of Women's
Studies Quarterly, analyzes how intersex issues have been taught
in Women's Studies and other related fields (Gender Studies, Queer
Studies, etc.) and proposes a new model that integrates activist
and academic approahes to thinking about intersexuality. Read
the entire paper by visiting the website of Intersex
Initiative Portland.
01/31/2003
- The Rocky
Mountain News has an article about one of the early researchers
in the area of intersex. From the headline: Living on the periphery
of British imperial power in the 1800s gave Dr. James Barry more
space to be his flamboyant and complicated self. As it turns
out, he had his own secrets and motives. Read
the article.
01/17/2003
- Bodies
Like Ours was featured in an article published in Just
Out, a queer weekly in Portland, OR.
Read the article.
01/16/2003
- The Gay
Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) has released guidelines
for the treatment of Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, and Intersex Patients.
This document was published for the benefit of health care providers
to help them treat us in a more compassionate and understanding
way. It makes note of the distrust we often have with medical
providers, makes note of possible post-traumatic stress disorders,
and suggests ways to make the us comfortable.
- You can
download a copy of the guidelines by visiting the GLMA
website.
Read
2002 News
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