Invisibilizzazione e cancellazione delle variazioni intersex in Italia tra sistema medico e giuridico

An increasing number of international human rights institutions are recommending to their Member States the adoption of all necessary measures to eliminate early non necessary interventions on intersex children and to protect their fundamental rights. With this contribution the authors aim to investigate the status of intersex people in Italy by examining the Italian medical and legal system. This analysis shows the ongoing invisibilisation and pathologisation of intersex people as they are still submitted to early nonlife saving surgical and pharmacological treatments aimed to direct the minor towards the feminine or the masculine, which have often several irreversible effects on a physical and psychological level. [Publisher's text].