"Man hat mich so beschädigt": zur unterschiedlichen Deutung von Verletzbarkeit und Verletzung am Beispiel medizinischer Eingriffe in intersexuelle Körper

• Autores: Kathrin Zehnder
• Localización: Feministische Studien, ISSN 0723-5186, Vol. 29, Nº. 2, 2011, págs. 248-263
• Idioma: alemán
• Títulos paralelos:
  • "They have damaged me so much": vulnerablity and harm exemplifiedby medical intervention in intersexed bodies
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• Resumen

  • While medical professionals interpret the management of intersexual children (e.g.

    gender and sex assignment, surgeries, hormone substitution etc.) as an inevitable act of healing, many people born with ambiguousgenitaliasurvivethesetreatmentsas traumatic violation and mutilation. The author shows that doctors see the unclear sex or ambiguous body as the reason for vulnerability which must – in the best interest of the child – be corrected. The ethical principal of ‚nil nocere‘ is astonishingly not examined in detail. In contrast, some intersexual people see those ‘corrections’ as the harm itself and claim for a non-treatment-option to avoid psychical and physical injury.