Researching intersex populations
Guidance on including people with innate variations of sex characteristics in research studies and surveys.
Author: Morgan Carpenter
“A medical condition is only as real as its definition”, Georgiann Davis on DSD in Sociology of Diagnosis journal
Sociologist Georgiann Davis Ph.D. recently had published her paper on DSD in Sociology of Diagnosis, Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12, 155–182. The paper, “DSD is a perfectly fine term”: Reasserting Medical Authority Through a Shift in Intersex Terminology is a hugely important critique and highly recommended reading. The context Even though the diagnosis carried…
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Submission to the Australian Attorney-General’s National Human Rights Action Plan consultation
Our submission on the National Human Rights Action Plan, Consultation Version.
An annulment of marriage due to being intersex in the Family Court: In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C).
A Brisbane Family Court case in 1979, In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C), annulled a marriage on the basis that an intersex man could not be legally married because marriage can only be between someone who is seen to be wholly male and someone who is seen to be wholly female….
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Intersex: intersectionalities with lesbian and gay people
IHRA’s Morgan Carpenter wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne in February 2012. The focus is on intersectionalities with same-sex attracted people.
Del LaGrace Volcano interviewed by Morgan for OII Australia
OII member and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, in an interview by Morgan of OII Australia for an ‘Intersex 101’ workshop at “Camp Betty” in Sydney.
Intersex people and intersectionality
The rights and concerns of intersex people overlap and intersect with the rights and concerns of women, LGBT people, and disabled and racialised peoples.
On intersex birth registrations
Intersex people in several Australian are able to obtain an administrative correction of intersex birth registrations, including correction to alternative male, female, or (in some cases) blank designation.
Testosterone: suffering the system, not the medication
Morgan writes about the problems associated with being prescribed a controlled substance.