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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The rights and concerns of intersex people overlap and intersect with the rights and concerns of women, LGBT people, and disabled and racialised peoples.
Gina Wilson’s Speech for TEDxSydney 2010, Saturday 22 May 2010.
Michael Noble wrote this paper on representations of his trait, Klinefelter Syndrome (47,XXY) in 2003, and revised it in 2010. This is the revised version.
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.
The past is another country and it can be a savage, brutal place. No matter how bad things may be now for intersex and other biological nonconformists, in the past they were immeasurably worse. I was reminded of this when chatting with a woman who had rejected the sex she was assigned at birth and…
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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.
THE issue with the IOC – International Olympic Committee – is sexism and every woman should be outraged. Why? Physical advantage Every gold medallist since the beginning of the modern Olympics, and most likely those in the old Olympics has a physical advantage over his competitors. The underlying prejudice in the current situation is that…
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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.
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