Category Sexuality
Adolescent Consent: Culturally Relative or Universal?
Julien Brisson supports removing age-based restrictions on adolescent healthcare consent, advocating for decisions to be made on the adolescent’s capacity to understand the treatment.
Canada is Not Ready to Criminalize Intersex Pediatric Surgery
Rashad Rehman argues that a moratorium against intersex pediatric surgery would be harmful.
What is “Pathologization”? Part II. Disorder and Difference
Rashad Rehman and Darius J. Bägli draw on the example of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in order to outline appropriate uses of the term “disorder” versus “difference” of sexual development.
What is “Pathologization”? Part I
Rashad Rehman delineates what pathologization means, drawing upon the example of differences and disorders of sexual development.
Inequities for Trans and Non-Binary Youth in New Brunswick
Julien Brisson argues that New Brunswick’s policy mandating parental consent for students under 16 to use their preferred names and pronouns creates unjust inequalities between students based on parental support.
Impact Ethics 