Providing ethical and compassionate health care to intersex patients : Intersex-affirming Hospital Policies

A. Ittelson, S. Fraser, D. Levasseur

Today, medical practitioners recognize the importance of providing ethical and compassionate health care to people born with intersex traits and have launched efforts to ensure that intersex people are receiving appropriate, sensitive, and nondiscriminatory health care. The main issue raised by members of the intersex community is the continued performance of medically unnecessary genital-normalizing surgery on intersex infants before they are old enough to participate in the decision-making process.