Garland, F, Lalor, K and Travis, M orcid.org/0000-0001-6245-7354 (2022) Intersex Activism, Medical Power/Knowledge and the Scalar Limitations of the United Nations. Human Rights Law Review, 22 (3). ngac020. ISSN 1461-7781
Abstract
This article considers the extent to which human rights mechanisms can ameliorate intersex rights at a sub-national, or medico-local, level. It engages with both intersex activism and the academy where the United Nations (UN) has become understood as a key mechanism through which to challenge day-to-day practices of healthcare practitioners and bring an end to nontherapeutic surgical and hormonal interventions on intersex infants and children. Using the UK as an example, this article examines how and why the UN’s engagement with intersex has had little effect on the medical regulation of intersex people. To do so, the article draws on legal geography to examine how scale prevents the UN from having a clear and lasting impact on domestic issues – particularly those in healthcare settings. The different ways in which intersex bodies are recognised and regulated at different scales, coupled with the UN’s inability to form dialogue with the institutions of the state, such as the healthcare profession, are problematic barriers to challenge practice at the medico-local scale.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) [2022]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Human Rights Law Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | intersex, activism, scale, human rights mechanisms, state response |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2022 14:04 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/hrlr/ngac020 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188240 |