Personal opinions
Intersex activist and sociology professor Cary Gabriel Costello blogs eloquently on the belief that transgender identities are a kind of “brain intersex”. He identifies the relationship between the pathologisation of homosexuality and similar efforts to discover a biological basis for sexual orientation, discusses “neurosexism” and brain plasticity, and also the impact on the ability of…
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An intersex person or any other Australian should be permitted to marry those they love, cherish and respect in order to live their life with integrity and under the full sanction of Australian law. Why? For the simple reason that they are obliged to pay taxes like everyone else. Yet, there is a massive disparity…
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There appears to be an abject fear of allowing intersex people any rights whatsoever. More specifically, an alarming number of medical, allied personnel and others deliberately place blinkers upon themselves. What they are afraid of is any peripheral vision lest they see the clear scientific findings about a human reality that really does exist. There…
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Long awaited documentary about the experiences of a number of intersex people around the world, Intersexion, was made for New Zealand television broadcaster TV One by Grant Lahood with the assistance of Wellington-resident intersex activist and counsellor Mani Bruce Mitchell.
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.
OII chairperson Hida Viloria in an excellent interview by Alix Iron for a Intersex 101′ workshop at the “Camp Betty” event in Sydney.