The role of the intersex child before the biomedical protocol of sexual designation

• Autor(a) principal: DE SOUZA, ANDREA SANTANA LEONE
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: CANGUÇU-CAMPINHO, ANA KARINA FIGUEIRA, DA SILVA, MONICA NEVES AGUIAR
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Periódicus
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaperiodicus/article/view/43017

Intersexuality is a biological expression of bodies that is different from binary logic, supported by medicine, which separates the body as being feminine and masculine. Resolution 1664/2003 of the Federal Council of Medicine and the Chicago Consensus of 206 are the biomedical protocols used as a reference for the sexual designation of the intersex person in Brazil. The article aims to analyze and discuss the role of intersex people in the face of a biomedical protocol for sexual designation. The approach method selected is of a qualitative nature, whose procedures are as follows: literature review; legislative review; and semi-structured interview. The interviews were carried out in the genetics outpatient clinic of the Professor Edgar Santos University Hospital, responsible for public care for intersex people in the State of Bahia. For the choice of respondents, the use of the technique of critical cases was adopted, and among those indicated by the professionals of the genetics clinic, two cases were chosen: one whose gender identity is in line with the sex that was assigned at birth; and the other whose gender identity is not in line with the sex designated at birth. The biomedical protocol for sexual designation does not guarantee the role of the intersex person at the moment that he understands the importance of surgery as the best strategy for the “normalization” of bodies. To make this person's role feasible, it is necessary to postpone the surgery in cases that are not essential for the child's health, considering that it is an irreversible act, however, postponable.