Presentation

ISNA board member Esther Morris Leidolf and Judy Bradford will present “Integrating Mental Health Services within Intersex Patient Care” at the 2004 LGBTI Health Summit in Cambridge.

ISNA Executive Director Cheryl Chase will present “What LGBTI Health Activists Need to Know (& May Mistakenly Think They Know) About Intersex”.

ISNA is not and never has been in favor of three sexes, no sexes, or eliminating gender—but many mistakenly believe that these are part of ISNA’s agenda. This workshop will present ISNA’s actual agenda, which includes the key points that intersexuality is basically a problem of stigma and trauma, not gender; that parents’ distress must not be treated by surgery on the child; that professional mental health care is essential; that honest, complete disclosure is good medicine; and that all children should be assigned as boy or girl, without early surgery.

PRESS RELEASE

Defining Male and Female: Biology and the Law

The National Organization of Gay & Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc. (NOGLSTP) is proud to present a three hour symposium entitled Defining Male and Female: Biology and the Law during the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting. The event is scheduled from 8 to 11am on Saturday, February 19th, 2005 in Washington DC.

This symposium will bring together experts in the fields of medicine, biology, law, ethics, community relations, and politics to discuss the implications surrounding the complexity and variability in defining the contexts of male and female.

ISNA’s Director of Medical Education Alice Dreger will speak on “Intersex, Conjoined Twinning, and Other Feats of Normality” at Cal State East Bay on Thursday, May 19, at noon local time. The lecture will be in Meiklejohn Hall (abbreviated MI on the campus map), Room 2106

For more information, please contact Prof. Maria Nieto at (510) 885-4757.

This event is free and open to the public.

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ISNA’s Board President Alice Dreger will present “Living in the Nature/Nurture Divide: Stories from People with Intersex” as part of the Nature/Nurture Symposium of the Lyman Briggs School of Michigan State University:

Friday, April 22,
11:30-12:30
C-106 Holmes Hall
Michigan State University

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Standard disclaimer: Items posted at the ISNA events site are provided as a public service, and are not necessarily sponsored or endorsed by ISNA. To suggest an event for posting, go to the contact ISNA box at the upper right side of this screen.

ISNA’s board president Alice Dreger will deliver a lecture based on her new book, One of Us, as the annual Priestley Lecture. She will discuss what happens to people born with socially-challenging anatomies, and why this issue matters to all of us.

University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Canada
Recital Hall -5th Level - W Section
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 10, 2005

For more information, contact Randa Stone at (403)329-2500.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

ISNA’s Director of Medical Education Alice Dreger will speak about the history and purpose of the intersex rights movement at the Sunday Service of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Muncie, Indiana on July 10, 2005.

Standard disclaimer: Items posted at the ISNA events site are provided as a public service, and are not necessarily sponsored or endorsed by ISNA. To suggest an event for posting, go to the contact ISNA box at the upper right side of this screen.

ISNA’s Director of Medical Education Alice Dreger will speak to the local branch of Physicians for Human Rights at the College of Human Medicine of Michigan State University (in East Lansing) on Tuesday, June 7, at noon local time.

She will focus on the recent report, released by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, declaring the treatment of people with intersex to be a human rights issue.

Standard disclaimer: Items posted at the ISNA events site are provided as a public service, and are not necessarily sponsored or endorsed by ISNA. To suggest an event for posting, go to the contact ISNA box at the upper right side of this screen.

Thursday, 1:00 to 3:00 PM

• “Intersex Disorders”. The moderator of the panel is Eric J. Vilain from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA who will speak on the “Genetics of Intersexuality”

• Melissa A. Parisi from Children’s Hospital Regional Medical Center in Seattle WA speaking about “A Multidisciplinary Gender Assessment Clinic: Experience Over 23 Years”

• Barry A. Kogan, of Albany Medical College, Albany, NY will then speak on “Surgical Aspects of Intersex”

• David E. Sandberg of Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY on “Clinical Decision-Making: Findings from a Survey of Pediatric Endocrinologists and Urologists”

• A discussion by the panel members with the addition of Roberta A. Pagon of Children’s Hospital Regional Medical Center of Seattle, WA

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On January 25, 2005, at noon (Eastern), ISNA’s board chair Alice Dreger will speak to University of Michigan medical students about intersex. She’ll screen for them our new film, The Child with an Intersex Condition: Total Patient Care, and talk with them about the changing treatment protocols for intersex.

This screening/discussion will happen in the West Lecture Hall located in Medical Science Building II on 1301 Catherine Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. All are welcome!

Alice Dreger, Chair of the Board of ISNA, will speak at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) on April 5, 2004, as part of the Science, Technology, and Society Colloquium Series. The talk is entitled “One of Us: Conjoined Twinning, Intersex, and the Future of Normal.”

This presentation will take place at the Michigan Room (second floor) of the Michigan League, 911 N. University. For more information, see http://www.ssw.umich.edu/ii-events.html