Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
Abstract
The article argues that the legal system perpetuates the erasure of intersex individuals by constructing intersex as a medical rather than a legal issue, leading to human rights violations. It contends that the law requires individuals to fit into a binary sex classification to be recognized as fully human, thereby denying intersex people legal visibility and protection. The article advocates for the recognition of intersex as a legal category to address the systemic discrimination and violence intersex individuals face, particularly in medical practices.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law | Human Rights Law | Law | Law and Gender | Sexuality and the Law
Recommended Citation
Jo Bird,
Outside the Law: Intersex, Medicine and the Discourse of Rights,
12
Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just.
65
(2005).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol12/iss1/6
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