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Sexuality and the Law

Sagit Mor

2013

Law and Society

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From Absence To Presence: A Critique Of Intersex Surgeries (Co-Authored With Maayan Sudai And Or Shai) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor Jan 2013

From Absence To Presence: A Critique Of Intersex Surgeries (Co-Authored With Maayan Sudai And Or Shai) (Hebrew), Sagit Mor

Sagit Mor

This is the first Article in Israeli legal scholarship that addresses the rights of intersex persons, who were born with "a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seemto fit the typical definitions of female or male" (INSA). The common practice in most Western countries today is to operate intersex infants in order to assign them to one of the “conventional” sexes: either male or female. The Article lays the foundations for an intersex critique of law that supports the rights of intersex persons and lays out the ground for the critique of the current legal arrangement and the design of …