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Autonomy and gender
 
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Comenius University, Bratislava
 
 
Submission date: 2025-08-13
 
 
Final revision date: 2025-10-04
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-11-17
 
 
Publication date: 2025-12-29
 
 
Corresponding author
Renata Kišoňová   

Comenius University, Bratislava
 
 
JoMS 2025;64(4):501-515
 
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Objectives:
The purpose of the presented text is to evaluate the human rights, ethical and medical discourse in connection with the autonomy of the person, especially in relation to intersex persons. We will deal with individual human rights documents that declare the freedom of the person and the dignity of each individual, although the everyday reality of intersex persons is often different. We will use descriptive, analytical, synthetic and hermeneutic methods when interpreting individual documents.

Material and methods:
We will use descriptive, analytical, synthetic and hermeneutic methods when interpreting individual documents. The article has an interdisciplinary character, it is based on the interpretation of a specific human rights problem (the issue of intersex persons and their autonomy) in the context of medicine and ethics. When interpreting human rights documents and case law, we use the analysis method. We will also use etymological method when reaching the meaning of the terminology (autonomy, gender, intersexuality).

Results:
Result of the text is pointing out the inadequacy of current legal protection for these people, although individual human rights documents prohibit torture and interference with the physical integrity or dignity and freedom of a person.

Conclusions:
I have shown in the text what problem intersex people face regarding their physicality, health, social life, and reproduction. I have also pointed out the inadequacy of current legal protection for these people, although individual human rights documents prohibit torture and interference with the physical integrity or dignity and freedom of a person.
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