Nothing to Fix: Medicalisation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
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Author: | Edited by Arvind Narrain and Vinay Chandran |
ISBN 13: | 9789351508908 |
Year: | 2017 |
Subject: | Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies |
About the Book
The theory and practice of medicine remains central to the concerns of persons identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or others. Individuals who have homosexual desires or feel transgender or are born intersex are often taken against their will to medical professionals. Instead of receiving affirmative support, they have distressing experiences of violence and violations. The narratives of such violence and violation include treatments offered for converting homosexuals to heterosexuals, humiliation of transgender people within the institution, and emergency surgeries of intersex infants who, due to the collusion between surgeons and parents, face the scalpel to convert them into an