title: Beyond Good Intentions.
abstract: Ethical questions in medicine tend to emphasize the intentions of researchers and physicians. Questions concerning harm have more often been addressed in terms of legal culpability. This commentary proposes that normalizing interventions for atypical sex anatomies, both historical and ongoing, be recognized as a kind of medical error, and that attention be focused not simply on prevention, but on repair.
authors: Ellen K
authors: EK
authors: Feder
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors; D062528:Medicalization; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000941:ethics