MRC-Intersex Justice In Practice: Exploring Social Work Practice With Intersex People / Those With Variations Of Sex Characteristics

Intersex is an umbrella term for people whose sex characteristics do not fit with those considered typical for males and females, including chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs. In recent years, global bodies have highlighted human rights concerns around the status of intersex people across the world.

Research indicates widespread stigma, erasure, and discrimination of those with variations of sex characteristics, at both micro and macro levels. Lived experience testimonies also highlight that intersex people can endure traumatising, non-consensual interventions as infants or children, including medically unnecessary surgeries.

Using research from the Intersex: New Interdisciplinary Approaches (INIA) project,this webinar will explore the health and wellbeing needs of intersex people and outline the use of terminology in practice. it will identify the unique contributions that social workers can make when working with this demographic practice.

Who should attend:

• Social workers, including those working in child protection or children’s social care.

Practitioners working in healthcare or adult social care settings. •

Policy makers, service managers, and those working in EDI. •

Academics with an interest in critical intersex studies, gender, and social justice.