This eBrief summarises the current state of human rights law as it applies to people with variations in their sex characteristics, known in human rights law as intersex people. It examines the situation at international, regional (European and Inter-American) and at some selected national levels.
Item Type:
Monograph (Policy Report)
Refereed:
No
Uncontrolled Keywords:
human rights, variations of sex characteristics; disorder of sex development; atypical sex characteristics; diverse sex development; differences of sex development; body difference, lived experiences; hermeneutic phenomenology; human rights; trauma; harm; childhood trauma; stigma; shame; torture; gender based violence; medical records; privacy; discrimination; differences; policy, law reform; 5-Alpha Reductase Deficiency (ARD); Ambiguous Genitalia; Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS); Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS); Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS); Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), Gonadal Dysgenesis (partial & complete); Hypospadias; Jacobs/XYY Syndrome; Kallman Syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome (KS) also known as XXY/47; Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH), Micropenis; Mosaicism involving “sex” chromosomes; Ovo-testes; Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome; Progestin Induced Virilisation; Swyer Syndrome; Turner’s Syndrome (one X chromosome); XY-Turner’s Syndrome