Esther Morris Leidolf

Esther Morris Leidolf
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Activist Writer
Website	mrkh.org

Esther Morris Leidolf is an American medical sociologist, and author of NOT UNCOMMON, Just Unheard of. ^[1] An intersex activist, writer, and the founder of the MRKH Organization, Leidolf was the board secretary for the Intersex Society of North America. ^{[2] [3]}

Career

Leidolf is a US-based medical sociologist with a background in public health data management, ^[1] writer, the founder of the MRKH Organization, and was the board secretary for the now-defunct Intersex Society of North America. ^{[2] [3]} In roles with ISNA and MRKH Organization, Morris Leidolf spoke at conferences and events, including the LGBTI Health Summit. ^[4] Works include The Missing Vagina Monologue. ^{[5] [6] [7]} Morris Leidolf has stated,

"Being born without a vagina was not my problem. Having to get one was the real problem." ^[2]

Alongside other activists, Morris Leidolf was critical of a 2006 shift in clinical language from intersex to disorders of sex development. ^{[8] [9]} Morris Leidolf also appears in the award-winning 2012 documentary Intersexion.^{[ citation needed ]}

Selected bibliography

• Morris Leidolf, Esther; Curran, Megan; Scout; Bradford, Judith (May 2008). "Intersex Mental Health and Social Support Options in Pediatric Endocrinology Training Programs". Journal of Homosexuality. 54 (3): 233–242. doi:10.1080/00918360801982074. ISSN   0091-8369. PMID   18825861. S2CID   205468762.
• Leidolf, Esther Morris (July 2006). "The Missing Vagina Monologue … and Beyond". Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy. 10 (2): 77–92. doi:10.1300/J236v10n02_05. ISSN   0891-7140.
• Morris, Esther (February 2, 2004). "The self I will never know". New Internationalist . Retrieved 2018-08-31.
• Morris, Esther (March 2001). "The Missing Vagina Monologue". Sojourner: The Women's Forum. 26 (7). ISSN   0191-8699.

See also

• MRKH
• Intersex
• Intersex rights in the United States
• List of intersex people

References

1. Morris Leidolf, Esther; Curran, Megan; Scout; Bradford, Judith (May 2008). "Intersex Mental Health and Social Support Options in Pediatric Endocrinology Training Programs". Journal of Homosexuality. 54 (3): 233–242. doi:10.1080/00918360801982074. ISSN   0091-8369. PMID   18825861. S2CID   205468762.
2. "Intersex Activists Respond to "The Vagina Monologues"". Intersex Society of North America . January 7, 2002.
3. "Esther Morris Leidolf". Our Bodies Our Selves. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
4. "Intersex Prominently Featured in the LGBTI Health Summit". Intersex Initiative. Aug 22, 2004. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
5. Still, Brian (2008). Online Intersex Communities: Virtual Neighborhoods of Support and Activism. Cambia Press. p. 115. ISBN   9781604975925.
6. Santos, Ana Lúcia (October 2014). "Beyond Binarism? Intersex as an Epistemological and Political Challenge*". RCCS Annual Review (6). doi: 10.4000/rccsar.558 . hdl: 10316/36578 . ISSN   1647-3175.
7. Zaccone, Laura A. (2010). "Policing the Policing of Intersex Bodies: Softening the Lines in Title IX Athletic Programs". Brooklyn Law Review. 76 (76).
8. Davis, Georgiann (September 2015). Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis. NYU Press. p. 45. ISBN   9781479887040.
9. Koch, Michaela (2017). Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir. transcript Verlag. p. 138. ISBN   9783839437056.

External links

• Esther Morris Leidolf's research, at ResearchGate