Moving Intersex/DSD Rights and Care Forward: Lay Understandings of Common Dilemmas

Abstract: When sex characteristics develop in ways that do not conform to binary models, dilemmas arise regarding how to understand the situation and what terminology to use to describe it. While current medical nomenclature suggests that it should be understood as a disorder of sex development (DSD) prompting medical responses, many describe intersex as a human variation in sexed embodiment that should be protected under discrimination laws. These opposing perspectives suggest different principles to employ in responding to dilemmas about gender assignment, early genital surgery and full disclosure of medical information. In this discursive psychological study, we explore how lay people, without prior knowledge or experience of intersex/DSD, make sense of these dilemmas and the underpinning discourses giving rise to how they talk about these situations. By using the discursive framework of ideological dilemmas, we analyse how people make sense of sex and gender (as binary or non-binary), ho.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5145

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Moving Intersex/DSD Rights and Care Forward: Lay Understandings of Common Dilemmas ; volume:7 ; number:1 ; day:14 ; month:05 ; year:2019 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 7, Heft 1 (14.05.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Lundberg, Tove ; Dønåsen, Ingrid ; Hegarty, Peter ; Roen, Katrina

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v7i1.1012
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004305263044126
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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