Can you imagine… no longer freaks & monsters?
Poster “Can you imagine a world where intersex people are no longer portrayed as freaks & monsters?” Tap the image to download a resizable PDF poster.
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Doctors Remove the Gonads of All Intersex Females with A.I.S…. Because…
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Intersex Australians… are Placed on a Sex Offenders Register…
Extract from OII Australia’s response to the Australian federal Department of Health and Ageing discussion paper on a New National Woman’s Health Policy: Some intersex individuals need anti-androgen medication. Because those medicines are not recognized treatments for the specific diagnosis the only path to that medication is to register the intersex person in question as…
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Karin on “Roberta Cowell’s Story, by Herself”
Karin at OII Australia has obtained a PDF rendition of the autobiography of British intersex woman Roberta Cowell. It was published in the UK in 1954 and has long been out of print. Roberta aka Betty underwent urogenital surgery in the early 1950s. She lived a long life, as a World War II fighter pilot…
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Gina Wilson: “Ms Semenya, I Never Knew You”
The events surrounding the gold medal run by Ms Caster Semenya in August of this year have created a perfect storm of speculation around intersex. I know little about Ms Semenya save that she has, by winning a gold medal, brought the full force of sex binary enforcement and intersexphobia down on her apparently unsuitable…
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It is not a crime to be born intersex…
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Ask me all about intersex
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Submission to the Federal Marriage Equality Amendment Bill Committee
A formal submission supporting the campaign for marriage equality.
Testosterone: suffering the system, not the medication
Morgan writes about the problems associated with being prescribed a controlled substance.
Karin: “Erasing the fact of natural variations in sex with John Money’s gender theories”
What is it about the word SEX that so upsets so many people that they feel compelled to substitute it with the word GENDER? It’s not just an American thing – too squeamish to use words that say exactly what they mean that they must invent pussy-footing, limp euphemisms, and even euphemisms for euphemisms. During…
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LGBTI outcomes from ALP National Conference
A media release by the Australian Coalition for Equality, with a commentary by OII Australia.
Sydney Morning Herald, “Be careful what the doctor may have ordered”
Lisa Pryor has written on “therapists with unconventional qualifications”, noting that no government body charged has power to “discipline unregistered therapists”. OII Australia always recommends that people choose a properly qualified therapist. The article carries some useful information for making this choice.
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