The self-proclaimed experts on intersex: Zucker and Lawrence
by Curtis E. Hinkle
17 January 2009
Just recently I received the following link:
I am sure that many intersex people were aware that the APA had brought out a booklet on intersex. However, I am not sure that many understand how problematic it is to many intersex people to see some of the following names associated with this booklet:
Margaret Schneider, Walter O. Bockting, Randall D. Ehrbar, Anne A. Lawrence, Katherine Louise Rachlin and Kenneth J. Zucker
At first glance, the booklet seems apparently harmless. However, that is what's so clever about it. It's a way for the Clarke/Northwestern clique to get their nose under the tent and then later "come on in".
I think that I should alert the intersex community that these people have self-declared themselves to be "experts" on intersex issues. If this goes unchallenged, they will now become the "leading scientists" who will speak on behalf of the APA about all intersex issues. Zucker is already the "expert" for WPATH, a transgender association which most intersex people have no desire to be associated with but which feels it has the right to speak about intersex issues with no consultation with or expertise concerning the patient groups affected around the world.
They are thus doing to intersex people what they've done to transgender people: Become the international scientific authorities who will tell the world what to think about us.
Even now they couldn't help reveal an important part of their agenda, by slipping the following into the booklet:
"Intersex was originally a medical term that was later embraced by some intersex persons. Many experts and persons with intersex conditions have recently recommended adopting the term disorders of sex development (DSD). They feel that this term is more accurate and less stigmatizing than the term intersex."
I think you can see where this is going.
That same group also released a "booklet" on transgenderism, which was similarly apparently harmless at first glance:
However, when you go to the bottom of that page and look at the references, you'll see that the deck is stacked with citations of Bailey, Blanchard, Lawrence and especially Zucker, i.e., that whole page is about establishing Bailey, Blanchard, Lawrence and Zucker as THE scientific authorities over transgenderism, and it deliberately EXCLUDES any citations of scientific papers that conflict with their point of view.
For information about Anne A. Lawrence: Click here
Note: The Task Force had claimed they were not going to address intersex, which was originally part of their mission with the Trans task force.
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