For an introduction to these issues, see our page on discrimination
We’d like to publicly thank all of the allies and other organisations who supported our assertions that intersex needs to be a specific attribute in the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, including the numerous organisations and individuals who made written submissions, and the people who mentioned intersex during the Senate Inquiry hearings. What the discussions…
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Gina Wilson and Morgan Carpenter had the honour of speaking to the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee regarding intersex provisions in the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill.
The Fairfax press has published a great interview with Gina Wilson, president of OII Australia, in the lead up to hearings on the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill on Thursday this week. Gina makes the point that intersex is a matter of biology, not identity or sexual orientation: Its president, Gina Wilson, pictured, said while…
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Read about bodily integrity, and eliminating harmful practices Read about eugenics, prenatal screening and elimination Read about discrimination, and stigma Read about identification documents, sex and gender Important note: this paper should not be regarded as a guide to our current policy on identification documents. Our approaches have been informed by community-building and evidence-building, and…
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Dan Harrison, Health and Indigenous Affairs Correspondent for Fairfax writes in The Age today on the proposed Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, quoting our submission: In its submission the Organisation Intersex International Australia said stronger protections were needed for intersex people. The bill introduces the first federal protections against discrimination on the grounds of sexuality…
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Our response to a recent submission by the Chief Justice of the Family Court on protection from discrimination.
The second International Intersex Forum has just concluded in Stockholm, with an affirmation of seven key demands and priorities for intersex people. Kindly organised by the European branch of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, ILGA Europe, the event was only the second ever international intersex gathering. Gina Wilson from OII Australia…
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Our submission to the Senate Inquiry on the Exposure Draft of the proposed Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, recommending inclusion of intersex people via ‘intersex status’ or ‘sex characteristics’ attributes, and not ‘gender identity’.
OII Australia was disappointed but not surprised that intersex was not specifically included in the recently released Anti-Discrimination Consolidation Bill. From the exposure draft, page 15: Section 6 of the proposed bill includes the following definition: gender identity means: (a) the identification, on a genuine basis, by a person of one sex as a member…
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The lived experience of intersex people, and the intersex movement, have many intersectionalities with experiences of disability and the disability movement.
Intersex people are people who have physical differences of sex anatomy other than brain sex alone. Our anatomical differences might include genetic, hormonal or genital differences or differences in our reproductive parts. The first Intersex Awareness Day (IAD) came about when the American intersex group named Hermaphrodites with Attitude (HWA) teamed up with American Trans…
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OII Australia warmly welcomes the proposed Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill 2012, which went through its first reading in the House of Assembly on 29 September 2012. If it passes, Tasmania will be the first place in Australia to offer legal protection to intersex people on the basis of our being intersex. Section 4 amends Section 3…
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