Sunday, October 11, 2009
Curtis E. Hinkle
Toronto hosts pro-surgery conference with Ex-gay researcher, Dr. Kenneth Zucker
http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/toronto-hosts-pro-surgery-conference.htmlThe Organisation Intersex International wishes to express its disappointment that the City of Toronto is hosting a conference which will further stigmatise and promote non-consensual surgery and hormonal treatments for intersex children. This conference gives no real representation from intersex people themselves and it treats us as "disorders" of sex development, a very offensive way of speaking about us.
We further are shocked that the conference will include three interactive surgeries for participants.
We are not disordered and we want access to treatments that we CHOOSE and we want to be able to give fully informed consent. Help stop the harm. Let the organisers know how you feel about human rights for intersex people.
