If you read the persons tweets she was talking about exams to monitor development the pelvic region. Intervention and monitoring are not the same thing. When you have a medical issue you undergo regular screenings.
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Replying to @JayGee47505179 @arthur_affect
I know. I'm intersex. I was routinely monitored and scanned, not because i had issues but because they over medicalise my body and caught my variations early on and eradicated them. Also, I can't see what they said cause they blocked me for not showing them my vulva scars.
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Intersex people are fighting against this overmedicalisation of intersex bodies. Fighting a system that pushes us towards unnecessary treatments. See also point number 4.pic.twitter.com/6t3XgttuZd
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Replying to @DorianDuck97 @arthur_affect
Considering that undescended testicles can become an acute condition like an appendix, don’t you think monitoring via screenings is prudent to 1) better understand the issue in the patient, 2) determine when or if intervention is needed? That’s kind of how screenings work.
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Replying to @JayGee47505179 @arthur_affect
I believe intersex children are overly medicalise and our bodies mutilated is there's even a 0.01% chance something could go wrong. Do all children get yearly check ups with invasive scans in case their appendix bursts or do we wait till symptoms appear?
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Replying to @DorianDuck97 @arthur_affect
An appendix does not go through developmental changes. Our reproductive system Has a maturation process. People with DSD are variable in terms of reproductive system level of development, monitoring is the only way to know what and how non-visible changes are occurring.
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Replying to @JayGee47505179 @arthur_affect
Dsd is an outdated phrase we no longer use as it implies our natural bodies are "disorders" that need fixed Intersex kids are over medicalise needlessly and mutilated at the slightest variation. If we treated non-intersex kids the same way, youd be up in arms.
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Do you believe we should subject all children to invasive, unnecessary medical treatment, regardless of a lack of medical concern or risk? Cause intersex kids like me do not need monitored and medically suppressed for not conforming. Something we are fighting against
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@JayGee47505179 was making exactly the same arguments that we hear from paediatric urologists and endocrinologists; I'd say that, yeah, she probably does believe something along those lines.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @benmcginnes @arthur_affect
DSD supersedes Intersex as the appropriate term. So that is what I have used. Use whichever makes you happy. When it comes to pelvic examinations, all of it is invasive. Just ask any endometriosis patient or woman having IVF. So, not unique to DSD.https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/genitourinary-tract/Pages/Explaining-Disorders-of-Sex-Development-Intersexuality.aspx …
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Fifty intersex orgs coordinated in May 2019 to publish a statement protesting the use of the term "DSD" by the WHO Claire and her friends like the term DSD because they're not intersex activists and they're opposed to the goals of intersex activismhttps://ihra.org.au/35299/joint-statement-icd-11/ …
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