Modern Medicine understands the intersex body as a pathology that must be corrected. Each year, hundreds of intersex newborns and children are subjected to genital “normalizing surgeries”: unnecessary, non-consensual and irreversible medical procedures that seek to adapt them to the status quo of corporal virtue. In this text, the authors present the main domestic and international legal discourses built around this medical practice. They conclude that, compared to national systems, International Human Rights Law has been crystalizing a legal standard prohibiting these interventions, but that it is urgent to have a contentious case before an international tribunal that so orders.

Modern Medicine understands the intersex body as a pathology that must be corrected. Each year, hundreds of intersex newborns and children are subjected to genital “normalizing surgeries”: unnecessary, non-consensual and irreversible medical procedures that seek to adapt them to the status quo of corporal virtue. In this text, the authors present the main domestic and international legal discourses built around this medical practice. They conclude that, compared to national systems, International Human Rights Law has been crystalizing a legal standard prohibiting these interventions, but that it is urgent to have a contentious case before an international tribunal that so orders.

Modern Medicine understands the intersex body as a pathology that must be corrected. Each year, hundreds of intersex newborns and children are subjected to genital “normalizing surgeries”: unnecessary, non-consensual and irreversible medical procedures that seek to adapt them to the status quo of corporal virtue. In this text, the authors present the main domestic and international legal discourses built around this medical practice. They conclude that, compared to national systems, International Human Rights Law has been crystalizing a legal standard prohibiting these interventions, but that it is urgent to have a contentious case before an international tribunal that so orders.

La Opinión Consultiva OC-24/17 de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos marcó un hito en el reconocimiento de las identidades trans y de género diverso: afirmó que los Estados deben generar mecanismos para modificar el nombre y/o el sexo/género en los registros y documentos de identidad a partir de la autodeterminación de le aplicante. Aunque al 2021 esta decisión constituye el estándar más garantista para reconocer la identidad de género en el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, ella legitimó el problema de origen: el cis-tema de registro del dato sexo/género asignado desde el nacimiento en virtud de una lectura de nuestros genitales. Frente a ello, este trabajo ofrece una lectura queer de la OC-24/17 que complejiza los efectos del dato sexo/género en el derecho a la identidad de género y, a partir de ello, en otros derechos como la vida privada y el libre...