Supported Decision-Making: Autonomy, Consent, and Accessible Choice
Supported decision-making helps people understand information, consider options, communicate preferences, and make their own choices with appropriate assistance.
Capacity to Consent: Understanding, Choice, and Sexual Autonomy
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.
Survivor-Centered Care: Choice, Safety, Dignity, and Autonomy
Survivor-centered care places a survivor’s safety, dignity, privacy, choices, and autonomy at the center of healthcare, advocacy, and support.
Trauma-Informed Care: Safety, Consent, Choice, and Autonomy
Trauma-informed care recognizes the effects of trauma and provides support through safety, choice, respect, informed consent, and reduced risk of retraumatization.
Contraceptive Counseling: Birth-Control Choice and Informed Consent
Contraceptive counseling provides individualized information and support to help people choose birth control based on health, preferences, effectiveness, and reproductive goals.
Intersex-Inclusive Care: Meaning, Principles, and Practice
Intersex-inclusive care provides respectful, individualized healthcare that protects privacy, informed consent, bodily autonomy, and genuine medical needs.
Nonconsensual Intersex Surgery: Meaning, Ethics, and Harm
Nonconsensual intersex surgery is irreversible treatment performed without the intersex person’s informed agreement, often to normalize sex characteristics.
Intersex Rights: Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, and Equality
Intersex rights protect bodily autonomy, informed consent, privacy, healthcare access, legal recognition, and freedom from discrimination.
Intersex Bodily Autonomy: Meaning, Consent, and Rights
Intersex bodily autonomy is the right to make informed decisions about one’s body, healthcare, sex characteristics, privacy, fertility, and irreversible treatment.
Specific Consent: Agreement to a Particular Sexual Activity
Specific consent is voluntary agreement to a clearly identified activity, person, time, and set of circumstances rather than broad permission.