ABSTRACT
This chapter gives space to the testimonies of people who have undergone corrective surgery, in order to keep these at the forefront of considering intersex/DSD. It is important to emphasize that some intersex/DSD conditions do carry with them concomitant health complications affecting more than simply the genitals or reproductive system, and it would, of course, be reprehensible and tragic if these were not properly addressed and treated. Corrective surgery for intersex was not unheard-of before John Money's reassignment of the non-intersexed David Reimer, but it was the alleged resounding triumph of the case which led to Money's views on early surgery becoming accepted practice in the vast majority of units. Support and advocacy groups run by and for intersexed people had also begun to be formed: Cheryl Chase founded the Intersex Society of North America in 1993, with a far more political bent than other groups.
