Towards a More Inclusive Conception of Gender-Diversity for Intersex Advocacy and Ethics

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assist those families to assign each child a gender at birth so that the child grows up a gendered person (masculine or feminine, boy or girl) as society requires. However, they stipulate that all involved should consider the assignment provisional. They stress that the family and the child should have counseling, and that the child, in particular, should be educated in age-appropriate ways regarding the provisional nature of his or her gender-assignment. Then, when the young person is able to do so thoughtfully, he or she should select his or her own gender on the basis of his or her experience of gender-identity. Intersex advocates are also well known to urge that surgery designed solely to address gender concerns should not be performed until the intersex person is able to thoughtfully choose or decline it. In urging this approach to rearing and gendering intersex children, intersex advocates readily acknowledge that a person’s experience of his or her genderidentity is not somethin

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