What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols

Authors

Alison Redick, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Abstract

The article examines the development of intersex management protocols at Johns Hopkins University, highlighting their significance as a pivotal shift in medical treatment and the conceptual understanding of sex and gender. It argues that these protocols, introduced by John Money and his team in 1955, moved away from a case-by-case approach to a standardized method, influenced by Money's theory of gender acquisition, which emphasized environmental factors over biological ones. The protocols aimed to enforce binary gender norms through practices like early surgical interventions, which the article critiques as flawed and harmful.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Sexuality and the Law

Recommended Citation

Alison Redick, What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols, 12 Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just. 289 (2005).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol12/iss1/16