Reddit mentions: The best urology books

While that paper is great for its solid rejection of TERFism, it is still very problematic for its implicit transphobia. However, instead of talking about that I'd rather talk about this:

Costello says:

>When someone presents a surgery as mutilating, trans advocates may immediately attack them as transphobic. This is very alienating to intersex people, and it is time for a more sophisticated approach. What trans people need to do is shift from arguing that hormonal treatment and genital surgery are lifesaving wonders that are never misapplied, to talking about a fight only for positive interventions into bodily sex, and never for negative ones.

A week before he posted his paper I posted the following on /r/CriticalGender:

>Another problem with "female genital mutilation" instead of "child genital mutilation" is that intersex children all over the world are still having their genitals operated on at a very young age without providing informed consent. It's easier to dig a hole than to build a pole, so an intersex boy with a micropenis might have his genitalia removed/reconstructed at a very young age without being asked.

>This issue of intersex children needs greater visibility. Since transsex people are currently in the spotlight, we can assist our intersex friends by bringing up this intersection.

>All of these practices which ignore the principle of informed consent should be abandoned - except for in cases where there is a genuine medical need.

• On child genital mutilation and informed consent
  
  You can imagine how I was literally banging my head against a wall after reading Costello's paper. Yes, it is time for a more sophisticated approach. And I posted a more sophisticated approach a week before he called for it.
  
  Focusing on the issue of informed consent and medical autonomy is more sophisticated than "positive interventions" and "never negative ones." If Costello has read "Critical Intersex" he should already know that the doctors who do those surgeries believe that they are "positive interventions." So Costello's rhetoric is ineffective.
  
  The common theme here, for both transsex and other intersex people, is denial of informed consent and medical autonomy. When intersex children are subjected to surgery without their informed consent, it is a denial of their medical autonomy. When trans people are unable to get surgery for our well-established medical condition of sex dysphoria, it is a denial of our informed consent and our medical autonomy. To correct both of these problems we need to advocate for informed consent and medical autonomy. People need to be able to make their own informed decisions about receiving or not receiving genital surgery, whether it is waiting until a child is old enough, or giving the surgery to a trans person who asks for it.
  
  In addition to being right about TERFism, Costello is correct about something else. The trans community can't be bothered with this topic. I know because it's the primary focus of my activism. And as well known as I am, I get little to no support for my efforts. So yeah, if I seem like I'm angry, that's why.
  
  To the few people reading this who were aware of how I felt about this paper when it came out, I can't thank you enough for the support you gave me at that time. I really did intend to quit my activism and you gave me the support I needed to get back on track.

Endocrinologist here. Re strength and muscle mass, it's unequivocal that men are on average stronger, and unequivocal that this is largely driven by testosterone. Testosterone directly increases muscle cell cross-sectional area in humans; strength differences between men and women are directly attributable to muscle cross-sectional area; in any group of men and women with similar training histories, men will substantially outperform women on strength tests; and individual variation in strength is highly correlated to variation in circulating androgens. There's really no doubt about that one and there's lots of good studies with good control groups.

Your other points stand, but for muscular strength, one can't simply brush off the known effects of the androgens.

Reviewed here, here, here, here. The known biochemical effects of testosterone on human skeletal muscle are reviewed in this paper.

Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. Quick, easy, important.

Lawrence is good for clerkship level understanding.

The three "big" texts are Cameron, Sabistion, and Schwartz.

Not familiar with the ones you posted, but my Renal fellow recommended Nephrology in 30 Days, especially for something as short as a 1mo rotation.

For peds renal, I liked Anver, Pediatric Nephrology for reference, since it's a fairly large text. I have this one on PDF, if anyone wants it.

Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience

Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution

http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Treating-Urinary-Incontinence-Second/dp/1932529217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409942299&sr=1-1&keywords=urinary+incontinence+in+adults