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...larger social issue to consider. Despite the many changes in gender roles in recent decades, our society is still fixed on the idea that there are just two separate sexes. Is the rush to early surgery a matter of medical necessity, or is it a matter of social bias that leaves doctors and parents uncomfortable with nonstandard genitalia? It's a question that more intersexuals are raising. "Doctors have found a medical solution to what is essentially a social problem," insists Thea Hillman, board member of the advocacy group Intersex Society of North America www.isna.org) "The problem...
...whether the ICJ should be hearing the case at all. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon snubbed the hearing as an "international circus," and the U.S. boycotted it as well. Also absent were representatives from the E.U. - and that surprised some Israelis, who have long accused Europe of anti-Israel bias. (Those feelings were fueled in part by a November Eurobarometer survey in which 59% of Europeans polled said the Jewish state "presents a threat to peace in the world.") But on this occasion, fearing that the ICJ hearing could hurt the peace process, current E.U. President Ireland and nine other...
...believe a fairly strong anti-religious bias exists in many of our institutions, both governmental and social, and this ruling was an example of that,” said Davey...
...calls the divide between him and his peers “the anti-religious bias in the academy,” and he says it’s more social than intellectual...
Northwest College, which Davey’s close friend and fellow Northwest alum Jeremy J. Frank says is sometimes jokingly called “Northwest Bridal College,” doesn’t have that kind of bias. There, it wasn’t unusual for Davey to have married his high school sweetheart, a girl he’d been dating since he was 15, while a sophomore in college. And it wasn’t taboo to challenge the separation between church and state. Indeed, the school recently featured a summary of Davey’s case...