Though intersex people have existed throughout all of human history, the trend of corrective surgeries on infants and children born with intersex traits is only around 60 years old, achieving wide popularity in that time. The surgeries are purely cosmetic and are rarely done out of medical necessity, and can often have extremely harmful effects. … Continue reading The Harmful Myth Of The Sex Binary
What’s Testimonial?: The Fifth Amendment in the Digital Age
One of the perils of our increasingly-connected lives is the extent to which many of the constitutional protections we rely on in our non-digital lives either do not apply or work differently when applied to our electronic devices. Perhaps the most important example of this lies in fifth amendment jurisprudence, or what is more commonly … Continue reading What’s Testimonial?: The Fifth Amendment in the Digital Age