On Intersex Surgery

Commenting note: this is about intersex surgery. This is not about male or female circumcision. Please keep your comments to the topic of intersex surgery.  We talk a lot about female and male genital circumcision, but a topic that is sadly undercovered, in my experience, is the surgery performed on children with intersex genitalia. An [...]

Spelling Queer with L, G, B, & T (and A, I, P…) Part 2

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HeatherN offers Part 2 of the “Queer Dictionary” to help understand the terminology surrounding sexuality and gender.

Intersex and Gender Surgery

Some interesting debate has been going on in the circumcision post about genital surgery on children. Therefore, I felt it was time to bring up one of the most important and overlooked issues about children and genital surgery. The intersex. An intersex person was born with anatomy that doesn’t match the ordinary definitions of female [...]