Intersexed

Intersexed

Intersexed Links

• Klinefelter's Syndrome Report A special short paper done as part of the Student Genome Project.
  
• Find others with XXY A great support, bonding, and resource site for people with Klinefelter's syndrome.
  
• Cushing's Support and Research Foundation Providing information and support for Cushing's Disease and Cushing's Syndrome patients and their families.
  
• The Genetic Interest Group UK-based organisation that aims to increase the public/government profile of genetic conditions. The AIS Support Group (UK) is affiliated to GIG.
  
• UK Turner Society Contains support, information on hormone replacement therapy for folks with Turner's, health issues for folks with TS, and personal stories.
  
• Guide to Medical Intersexuality Vocabulary Includes such bitterly funny entries as "Ambiguous Genitalia: Genitalia that refuse to declare their sex to doctors--no doubt on the principle that under interrogation by the enemy you should give only name, rank, and serial number."
  
• Check for Mutilation on Return An exhibition by South African artist Stuart Barnes which examines the medical discourse around intersex infant surgeries.
  
• Sex Police The biology of sex is being hotly debated, as parents, doctors and researchers reevaluate what it means to be male and female. This is an article about 'gender reinforcement' surgery by a subscriber to the US branch of the AIS Support Group.
  
• Hypospadias Why it happens, what it is, what to do; see photos of hypospadias and contact others with it. Discusses androgen insensitivity, testicular feminization syndrome, development, and even ISNA.
  
• Intersexuality In Sports Information about the condition in amateur and Olympic performance. Includes a human rights perspective.
  
• Abnormal Sex Differentiaton This site will help parents and patients understand intersexuality and the challenges that accompany syndromes of "abnormal" sex differentiation. From the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
  
• Genetic Org Klinfelter's support site. Designed to provide support and education for families and professionals dealing with these genetic conditions, including sex chromosome variations 47XXY, 48XXYY, 48XXXY, 49XXXXY, and 46XY/47XXY mosaic.
  
• The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name A long article by Emily Nussbaum in the current issue of Lingua Franca details the rise of the increasingly successful intersex social justice movement, its alliances with humanists and social scientists in the academy, and growing pockets of change within the medical community.
  
• The Discussion Forum For folks with Addison's Syndrome.
  
• MRKH Listserv and Online Support Group Homepage A discussion group for XX females with ovaries but lack of vaginal, and often uterine development.
  
• The ISNA Intersex FAQ Frequently (or infrequently) Asked Questions about intersex people and the Intersex Society of North America
  
• GIRES: The Gender Identity Research & Education Society Registered UK charity that sponsors research and education on gender identity.
  
• Intersex Society of North America ISNA is a peer support, education, and advocacy group founded and operated by and for intersexuals: individuals born with anatomy or physiology which differs from cultural ideals of male and female.