A smart, lucid, and devastating critique of the medical management of intersex from a major thinker in the field. It should be read by anyone interested in gender, medical ethics, or what it means to live in a body--or to live in a world where some bodies continue to be violated.--Leah DeVun, author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

A powerful call for intersex demedicalization from one of the leading voices in critical intersex studies.--Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution

Iain Morland develops a powerful and articulate analysis of the destructive force of medical--and especially surgical--interventions into the bodies and self-representations of intersex infants and children and their lingering effects on the adults they become. This book also attests to and affirms the bodily and psychic resistances, excesses, and forms of creativity that intersex bodies pose to their medical "normalization."--Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism

With writings that span three decades, there is no one more qualified to offer directions forward than Morland...Through Intersex, we can begin to imagine the true demedicalization of intersex. By admitting the failure of the promise of normalization and examining the layers of physical and emotional scars that this failed promise created, we can see the necessity of charting a new way forward that eschews sex/gender as a simple binary, embracing those whose bodies defy this false opposition.-- "Science"