Queer crip: Rethinking bioethics of surgery for gender and sexual variance

Abstract

I invite surgeons to contribute to the medical model of gender and sexual variance, bioethically building from queer bioethics and crip views that question compulsory abled-bodiedness paired with compulsory abled-mindedness and cis- and heteronormativity. I discuss how founding bioethics on gender and sexual variance instead of cis- and heteronormativity is better attuned to the factual cornucopia of human gender and sexuality and increases human flourishing. I conclude that although surgical cures must be offered as medically necessary to those who desire them, such cures must be based on individual treatment plans.