Holmes, Morgan. See entries under “Where can I read deconstructions of the medical viewpoint?
Horowitz, Sarah. “Both and Neither,” SF Weekly, February 1, 1995. For generations, doctors have been “fixing” babies born with ambiguous genitals. Now adult “intersexuals” wonder if their true identities have been surgically mutilated. The article doesn’t take sides, and plays the “expert” doctors’ opinions against our opinions. Needless to say, the doctors insist that no one can be allowed to remain intersexual, and we (Cheryl, Morgan, and David) assert that we are intersexual, and that we have been harmed by medicalization. Anne Fausto-Sterling takes our side, and Suzanne Kessler is “sympathetic” with ISNA’s goals, but cautions that what doctors are doing is enforcing a cultural mandate, and that doctors are not likely to participate in a revolution.
