Intersex Initiative: Intersex & Law Bibliography

Intersex & Law Bibliography

Below is the short list of legal articles related to intersex. Fortunately, some of them are available online. If you know of any other papers that should be included here, please let us know.

Legal Papers on Intersex

Alibadi SA. 2005. "You make me feel like a natural woman: Allowing parents to consent to early gender assignment surgeries for their intersexed infants." 11 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 427.
Alibadi SA. 2004. "Gender assignment surgery for intersexed infants: How the substantive due process right to privacy both supports and opposes a moratorium." 12 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law 170.
Beh HG, Diamond M. 2000. "An emerging ethical and medical dilemma: Should physicians perform sex assignment on infants with ambiguous genitalia?" Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, 7(1): 1-63.
Beh HG, Diamond M. 2005. "David Reimer's legacy: Limiting parental discretion." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 5.
Ben-Asher N. 2005. "The necessity of sex change: A struggle for intersex and trans liberties." 29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 51.
Benson SR. 2005. "Hacking the gender binary myth: recognizing fundamental rights for the intersexed." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 31.
Bird J. 2005. "Outside the law: Intersex, medicine, and the discourse of rights." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 65.
Bishop EA. 2007. "A child's expertise: Establishing statutory protection for intersexed children who reject their gender of assignment." 82 New York University Law Review.
Côté A. 2000. "Telling the truth? Disclosure, therapeutic privilege and intersexuality in children." Health Law Journal 8:199-216. [Download ]
Dreger AD. 2001. "'Ambiguous sex'--or ambivalent medicine? Ethical problems in treatment of intersexuality." Women, Medicine and Law. S Sherwin. London: Ashgate Publishing.
Ehrenreich N, Barr M. 2005. "Intersex surgery, female genital cutting, and the selective condemnation of 'cultural practices'." Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Winter; 40(1):71-140.
Ford K-K. 2001. "'First, do no harm': The fiction of legal parental consent to genital-normalizing surgery on intersexed infants." Yale Law & Policy Review.
Fox M, Thomson M. 2005. "Cutting it: Surgical interventions and the sexing of children." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 81.
Frankle RE. 2003. "Does a marriage really need sex?: A critical analysis of the gender restriction on marriage." Fordham Urban Law Journal September.
Greenberg JA. 1999. "Defining male and female: Intersexuality and the collision between law and biology." Arizona Law Review 41(2):265-328.
Greenberg JA. 2005. "Intersex and intersex debates: Building alliances to challenge sex discrimination." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 99.
Guber N. 2005. "Ethics in medicine: With a special focus on the concepts of sex and gender in intersex management." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 117.
Haas K. 2004. "Who will make room for the intersexed?" Americal Journal of Law and Medicine 30(1):41-68.
Hermer L. 2002. "Paradigms revised: Intersex children, bioethics & the law." Annals of Health Law.
Hermer L. 2007. "A moratorium on inersex surgeries? Law, Science, Identity, and bioethics at the crossroads." 13 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender.
Holmes M. 2005. "Distracted attentions: Intersexuality and human rights protections." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 127.
Knouse J. 2005. "Intersexuality and the social construction of anatomical sex." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 135.
Lareau AC. 2003. "Who decides? Genital normalizing surgery on intersexed infants." Georgetown Law Journal. 92.
Levi J. 2006. "The interplay between disability and sexuality: Clothes don't make the man (or woman), but gender identity might." 15 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 90.
Lloyd E. 2005. "Symposium report: Intersex education, advocacy, & the law: The struggle for recognition and protection." 11 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 283
Lloyd E. 2005. "From the hospital to the courtroom: A statutory proposal for recognizing and protecting the legal rights of intersex children." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 155.
Martin PL. 2002. "Moving toward an international standard in informed consent: The impact of intersexuality and the internet on the standard of care." Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy Summer.
Preves S. 2005. "Out of the O.R. and into the streets: Exploring the impact of intersex media activism." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 247.
Reilly E. 2005. "Radical tweak--Relocating the power to assign sex: From enforcer of differentiation to facilitator of inclusiveness: Revising the response to intersexuality." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 297.
Stone MR. 2005. "Approaching critical mass: An exploration of the role of intersex allies in creating positive education, advocacy, and change." 12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 353.

Other Legal Papers Relevant to Intersex

Bloom A. 2005. "Rupture, leakage, and reconstruction: The body as a site for the enforcement and reproduction of sex-based legal norms in the breast implant controversy." 14 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 85.
Kurtz SF. 2000. "The law of informed consent: From 'doctor is right' to 'patient has rights'." Syracuse Law Review.
McNichols WJ (1995). "Informed consent liability in a 'material information' jurisdiction: What does the future portend?" Oklahoma Law Review.
Rosato JL. 2000. "Using bioethics discourse to determine when parents should make health care decisions for their minor children: Is deference justified?" Temple Law Review, Spring 2000.
Svoboda JS, Van Howe RS, Dwyer JG. 2000. "Informed consent for neonatal circumcision: An ethical and legal conundrum." Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy. 17:61-133.

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