Professor Alice Dreger writes in Psychology Today’s blog, “Fetishes I Don’t Get”: In a brief article entitled “Bad Vibrations” just posted at the Hastings Center’s Bioethics Forum, my colleague Ellen Feder and I express our shock over the follow-up techniques being used by pediatric urologist Dix Poppas at Weill Medical College of Cornell University on…
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However much sympathy we have in this tragic circumstance, we cannot help but be alarmed at the way CAH individuals are being portrayed. While it is understandable that a defense team might use every means at their disposal to have their client acquitted or the sentence minimized, the publicity this case has received paints those…
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From the ‘Response of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to the Proposed DSM 5 Criteria for Gender Incongruence’: (4) Adding a specifier of “with or without a Disorder of Sex Development” is an improvement over the need to use the “Not Otherwise Specified” diagnosis because individuals with intersex conditions may have a similar…
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Gina Wilson’s Speech for TEDxSydney 2010, Saturday 22 May 2010.
New Zealand intersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell attended the National LGBT Health Alliance conference Health in Difference, Doing Diversity in Sydney from 29th April to 1st May. Health in Difference, Doing Diversity is the seventh such conference and it is the first to include intersex. Members of OII Australia attended and OII Australia president Gina…
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Intersex refers to atypical internal and/or external anatomical sexual characteristics, where features usually regarded as male or female may be mixed to some degree. This is a naturally occurring variation in humans.
OII Australia considers the provision of criminal history checks by the West Australian Police force to be adequate. The checks and balances seem to be there for intersex given the police in that state see differences in sex as being analogous to differences in gender. We have no need to pursue that debate with the…
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Gina Wilson is quoted in this article about the impact of a third sex classification on intersex infants and children: SAGE said the decision was also a win for intersex children who might be registered as ‘Sex Not Specified’ until they decided what sex was right for them. However, Gina Wilson of Organisation Internationale des…
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Trans person Norrie is in the news: A spokeswoman for the Attorney-General’s department confirmed it was the first such certificate to state non-specified gender, and that even intersex children have their sex determined within weeks of birth. A Catholic ethicist, Nicholas Tonti-Filippini from the John Paul II Institute, said birth certificates should also record no…
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New Zealand photographer Rebecca Swan talked about her project Assume Nothing at the Australian Centre for Photography.
Gina Wilson, president of OII Australia, participated in this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras parade, marching with the Inner City Legal Centre float. Photo: Morgan Carpenter.
Police checks conducted by the Northern Territory Police are in general conformity to those of other states. OII Australia has reservations nonetheless. OII Australia does not welcome clearances being provided directly to third parties. All clearances should only be provided when application is by the individual subjected to the clearances. The applicant should be the…
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