Dealing With Uncertainty and Lack of Knowledge in Diverse Sex Development: Controversies on Early Surgery and Questions of Consent

Introduction: Diverse sex development (dsd) is an umbrella term for different congenital conditions with incongruence of chromosomal, gonadal, and phenotypic sex characteristics. These are accompanied by various uncertainties concerning health-related, medical, psychosocial, and legal issues that ra...

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Main Authors: Ute Lampalzer, PhD, Peer Briken, MD, Katinka Schweizer, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Sexual Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2050116120300398