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Author: Elizabeth Reis

Elizabeth Reis is a professor of medical ethics and gender studies at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which will be published in an expanded second edition in July 2021.
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Intersex People in the Past and Present: “Contemporary Advocacy in Historical Context”

Elizabeth Reis
Intersex People in the Past and Present: "Contemporary Advocacy in Historical Context"

Physicians still offer parents genital “repair” for intersex children with the misguided supposition that “fixing” their bodies will lead to happier lives—even though countless intersex adults have expressed the wish that medical authorities had not intervened.

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