Mika Venhola is a Deputy Chief of the Oulu University Hospital Department of Pediatrics and Adolescence. We included a partial transcript of this interview in one of our submissions to the Australian Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation.
This submission has been superseded by later policy, based on the 2013 Malta Declaration, a joint submission to the Attorney General’s Department on amending the guidelines, 2015 2017 Darlington Statement
The government of the Australian Capital Territory has published its response to “Beyond the Binary”, a report on legal recognition of “sex and gender diversity” in the jurisdiction. We express serious and fundamental concerns.
Our response to a new Victorian Health Department publication on medical decision-making for the treatment of intersex infants, children and adolescents.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 20, 2013 Press Contacts: Hayley Conway (and Finn Shearer), All Out, 0415 314 293 hayley@allout.org Anna Brown, Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, 0422 235 522 Gina Wilson, Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia, 0148 290 336 gina@oii.org.au Justin Koonin, NSW GLRL, 0414 269 339 Peter Hyndal, A Gender Agenda 0408 111…
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New poster “Intersex people have all sorts of sexual orientations.” Intersex people may choose to be part of LGBTI because of our shared experience of homophobia, but “heterosexual” is not the opposite of LGBTI. Click to download (PDF, A3, scalable). More information: Intersex for allies.
New poster Intersex people have all sorts of gender identities. Assuming that intersex people automatically have a non-binary gender identity mis-genders most of us. Having a non-binary gender identity does not automatically make you intersex. Click to download (PDF, A3, scalable). Also on Tumblr. More information: Intersex for allies.
Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, www.vglrl.org.au OII Australia, www.oii.org.au TransGender Victoria, www.transgendervictoria.com For Immediate Release: 21 February 2012 LGBTI groups call on Government to “Pass the Bill” before election One step closer to LGBTI rights recognition and improved discrimination laws Leading LGBTI organisations, Transgender Victoria (TGV), Organisation Intersex International (OII) and the Victorian Gay…
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Intersexion returns for a screening at Dendy Newtown as part of the Mardi Gras Film Festival on Sunday 24 February at 5pm, and a first screening in Melbourne at the ACMI Studio as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival on Sunday 17 March at 12pm. The two previous public screenings in Sydney have both…
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We’d like to publicly thank all of the allies and other organisations who supported our assertions that intersex needs to be a specific attribute in the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, including the numerous organisations and individuals who made written submissions, and the people who mentioned intersex during the Senate Inquiry hearings. What the discussions…
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The Fairfax press has published a great interview with Gina Wilson, president of OII Australia, in the lead up to hearings on the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill on Thursday this week. Gina makes the point that intersex is a matter of biology, not identity or sexual orientation: Its president, Gina Wilson, pictured, said while…
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Sociologist and intersex person Cary Costello has just published a great blog post at the Intersex Roadshow on how educational and scientific texts about a hermaphrodite fish are affected by the world view and beliefs of the writer. A central issue that makes life hard for intersex people is invisibility. Most people are unaware of…
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