Intersex People – Disordered or Different? The DSD Debate

http://drdrantz-sciencesexuality.blogspot.com/2009/07/intersex-people-disordered-or-different.html
7/29/09

Should intersex people be regarded as having a disorder that needs to be fixed or should they be viewed as natural variations and simply different?

Robert Davidson has traced the framing processes executed in a debate over the reshaping of a code among three groups of the intersex social movement in order to understand how the groups engage with the medical discourse on intersex. His paper entitled "DSD Debates: Social Movement Organizations' Framing Disputes Surrounding the Term 'Disorders of Sex Development'" is an ongoing PhD research project that summarizes the history surrounding the medical community's treatment of intersex people. It also includes discussion of the influence of John Money and his nemesis Milton Diamond.