The following call for consulation has been sent to me - **please respond to
GIRES direct**. GIRES is the Gender Identity Research and Education Society,
aUK charity working in the area of transgender and intersex condition.
Please forward to any relevant groups or people
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>GIRES MEDICAL RESEARCH PANEL
>MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF INTERSEXED INFANTS
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>GIRES is working with the UK medical bodies to develop agreed guidelines
for
>the medical management of intersexed infants that will deal inter alia with
>the following factors:
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> a - the impossibility of predicting or manipulating, with
>certainty, the eventual gender identity of any infant, whether intersexed
or
>not.
> b - the need to make an early decision on gender for social
>purposes does not
>imply equal urgency for gender confirming treatment.
> c - the consequences of the various errors which may be made in
>undertaking irreversible treatment of such infants.
> d - the need for a comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment of
>each case.
> e - the conditions for which immediate irreversible medical
>treatment is a
>compelling necessity.
> f - the presumption that, except in cases of compelling medical
>urgency,
>irreversible treatment will be delayed until the patient can give fully
>informed consent.
> g - the safeguards to prevent avoidable damage to the patient's
>sexual functions.
> h - the information and advice which should be provided to the
>parents of such
>infants, including how to contact the specialised support groups.
> i - the requirement for long term follow up of each case into
>adulthood.
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>The charity will be pleased to receive comments on the above suggested
>factors:
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>With warmest regards. Bernard.
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