LGB+ and heterosexual-identified people produce similar analogies to intersex but have different opinions about its medicalisation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12978587
AutoresHaley Kingsbury (University of Surrey), Peter Hegarty (0000-0002-5487-4075, University of Surrey, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas535-549
Fecha de publicación2021-03-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPsychology and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1941-9902 • E-ISSN: 1941-9899
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19419899.2021.1881595
OpenAlexW3133881010
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas50

Qualitative researchers have long observed that rationales for medical interventions on intersex characteristics, or ivariable sex characteristics/i (VSC), invoke heteronormative ideals. Such medical interventions are controversial and described as infringing human rights. Recent survey research has confirmed that support for medical intervention, and opposition to its legal limitation on human rights grounds is predicted by (1) identifying as heterosexual and (2) endorsing gender binary beliefs. We replicated both findings here among 59 LGB+ and 61 heterosexual participants. Opinions about medical interventions on intersex characteristics were additionally predicted by belief in iheterosexual complementarity/i among all participants, and by strength of iheterosexual identification/i among heterosexual-identified participants. Participants read excerpts from three published interviews with a medical professional, a parent of a child with intersex characteristics, and an adult with intersex characteristics and generated analogies to these experiences. Participants who generated more diverse analogies endorsed the gender binary and medical interventions less, and supported legal limitations more. The results are discussed in relation to the formation and distribution of public attitudes to the controversial medicalisation of intersex characteristics

Developmental psychology · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Intervention (counseling · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Clinical Psychology · Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexual Differentiation and Disorders · Social Psychology