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List of television episodes with intersex themes

ShowEpisodeEpisode NameInformation
20/20A Different Sex (April 19, 2002)
60 Minutes (Australia)Breaking the silence: Sexual reassignment. (June 25, 2000)Tony Briffa, Garry Warne interviewed.
BBC Outlook (UK)Cheryl Chase and Philip Ransley on Intersex Management (October 10, 2000)
BBC (UK)The boy who was turned into a girl (December 7, 2000)David Reimer ("John/Joan") story (predates David Reimer's 2004 suicide).
Chicago HopeBoys Will be Girls
Law and Order: Sexual Violence Unit6.12January 18, 2005a dramatization of the David Reimer story, except one of the twins murders the John Money character.
DatelineGender Limbo June 17 1997interview with Intersex Society of North America founder Cheryl Chase, commentary from urologist (genital surgeon) Kenneth Glassberg,
DiscoveryIs it a Boy or a Girl? (March 26, 2000, frequently re-broadcast)interview with Intersex Society of North America founder Cheryl Chase, surgeon Kenneth Glassberg, individuals from Dominican Republic born intersexed, raised without medical intervention, an African American family with a daughter born with CAH, ambiguous genitalia, and who chose to have surgery performed on their child.
EROctober 1998In a Christmas episode, one of the patients is a transgender woman, with a turkey. In another episode a young girl is discovered to be genetically a boy, prompting Dr. Romano to make a trans-phobic joke.
The Fifth Estate (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1997)David Reimer ("John/Joan") story (predates David Reimer's 2004 suicide).
Freaks and GeeksThe Little ThingsAmy reveals to Ken that she was born intersexed.
Footballer's Wives
FriendsFriends recall a high school rumor that Rache had a "teeny weeny". Rachel was traumatized by the rumor.
GeraldoHermaphrodites (July 27, 1989)
Gray's Anatomy
HouseSkin DeepDr. House determines that a teenage girl with perplexing symptoms has testicular cancer, and he proceeds to traumatize her by telling her that she's "really a man" and that he's going to "cut her balls cut off" and then she'll be fine. Dr. House also determines that her father has been sexually abusing her, but predicts that the abuse will stop because now it would mean that the father is "a homo".
Nova (PBS)Sex Unknown (October 30, 2001)
Prime Time LiveBoy or Girl? (1997)
SallyI'm not a man; I'm not a woman (September 29, 1989)
Sally Jesse Raphael ShowIntersex (May 25, 1999)
SexTV (City TV, Canada)Redefining Sex (July 22, 2002)
Univision Aqui y Ahora (Spanish language, US)Intersex (May 25, 2000)
Nip/Tuck3.15It is revealed that Quentin has 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.
Holby City (UK)23 Oct 2001Featured a small girl with androgen insensitivity syndrome and her father's difficulty in accepting the information.
Doctors (UK)Fall 2001Featured androgen insensitivity syndrome.

See also

* Intersex
* Intersex surgery
* List of television episodes with coming-out themes
* List of television episodes with transgender themes
* List of television episodes with anti-queer violence themes
* List of television episodes with LGBT marriage themes
* List of television episodes with LGBT parent themes

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