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100			_aJoy, Eileen _96598
245			_aReproductive justice for children and young people with gonadal variations : _bintersex, queer and crip perspectives _cEileen Joy, Katrina Roen and Tove Lundberg
260			_c2023 _bAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
500			_aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2023, 35(4): 45-58
520			_aINTRODUCTION: This article draws on understandings from reproductive justice, crip and queer theories to discuss gonadectomy for children and young people with gonadal variations. Gonadectomy is sometimes performed on people with gonadal variations without their free and informed consent. Some parents report experiencing pressure to consent to such surgery when their children are young. We understand this to be an issue of reproductive justice. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents of affected children and young people (n = 13). Thematic coding was used to identify data relating to gonads, ovaries, testes and gonadectomy. The data were analysed using discursive questions drawn from a reproductive justice framework. ANALYSIS: Parents’ talk about gonads suggests a process of sense-making that can be emotionally challenging. Our analysis situates their talk within broader societal discourses of ablebodiedness and the sex binary. Parents explained their choices and decisions by centring various understandings. Some explained how gonadectomy made sense for maintaining binary sex and following medical advice. Others emphasised the child’s consent and bodily autonomy. Our analysis draws out how parents’ decisions navigate reproductive justice and injustice. CONCLUSIONS: Dominant beliefs about ablebodiedness and the sex binary appear to influence and frame decision-making about the gonads of children and young people with variations in sex characteristics. A crip, queer, and reproductive justice lens allows us to expand understandings of reproductive justice for all and potentially helps to destabilise and disrupt the sex binary. (Authors' abstract). Follow the table of contents link for other articles in this Reproductive justice special issue. Record #8486
650			_aDISABLED PEOPLE _9196
650			_aCHILD WELFARE _9124
650			_aCHILDREN'S RIGHTS _9135
650			_aINTERSEX _93311
650		0	_aLGBTQIA+ _93453
650			_aPARENTS _9430
650			_aREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH _93274
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
700			_aRoen, Katrina _912506
700			_aLundberg, Tove _912507
773	0		_tAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2023, 35(4): 45-58
830			_aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work _96152
856			_uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1043 _zOpen access, PDF
856			_uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/issue/view/73 _ySpecial issue: Reproductive justice table of contents
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hnews125