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- "Discover"ing Intersex People - The January edition of Discover features a lengthy, well-written article about intersexuality by Emily Nussbaum. It details how being born with ambiguous genitals affects the person, how families react and procedures followed by the medical community.
www.glaad.org/org/publications/alerts/index.html?record=208
- Chicago Tribune Dissects Intersex Issues With Finesse - In the June 20 issue of the Chicago Tribune staff writer Louise Kiernan performs an important service: educating the public-at-large about medical practices that arbitrarily assign a gender to children who are born with "ambiguous genitalia," often without consent of the parents.
www.glaad.org/org/publications/alerts/index.html?record=387
- GLMA Issues Policy on Intersex Surgery - The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association comes out against IGM.
www.gpac.org/news/html/iyf117.html
- Intersex People Speak to APA - The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) hosts a hospitality suite, sponsored by the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) convention.
www.glaad.org/org/publications/lines/index.html?record=1275
- Intersex Society of North America Included in Task Force - The recently formed North American Task Force on Intersex (NATFI), made up almost exclusively of doctors and surgeons, has included in its ranks two intersex activists.
www.glaad.org/org/publications/lines/index.html?record=114
- Mlle Examines Intersex Controversy - Popular women's magazine "Mademoiselle" profiles intersex woman Angela Moreno.
www.gpac.org/news/html/iyf124.html
- National News - HWA Protests Intersex Genital Mutilation - Report of an action by Hermaphrodites With Attitude and Transexual Menace, protesting outside the George Washington University Hospital.
www.gpac.org/news/html/iyf007.html
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