For an introduction to these issues, see our page on discrimination
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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In the light of debate around same sex marriage, marriage equality and the legal recognition of intersex people, Gina Wilson writes on the marriage rights of intersex people. The first thing to address is our right to marriage of any sort. When the Howard government proposed changes to the definition in the Marriage Act so…
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BeyondBlue, the national initiative on depression has launched a new LGBTI campaign, with a series of excellent videos from members of LGBTI communities. Gina Wilson, president of OII Australia, is one of those people.
Alice Dreger, Ellen K Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis write in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 30 July 2012, on the “use of dexamethasone in pregnant women at risk of carrying a female fetus affected by congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)” in the West. To our eyes, this is not just an intersex issue but an LGBTI…
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Gina Wilson, president of OII Australia, shared a platform on “Community Groups on how Rainbow Labor can work with them” at the Rainbow Labor conference with Senthorun Raj from NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby and Amnesty International, NSW, Aram Hosie from the WA Gender Project and Inspire Foundation and WA Gender Project, and Alex…
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OII Australia notes the publication of the Australian Capital Territory’s report Beyond the Binary today, but unfortunately has to oppose many of the proposals.
Katrina Karkazis, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Georgiann Davis and Silva Comporesi write in The American Journal of Bioethics on new IAAF/IOC policies on hyperandrogenism in female athletes: In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandoned sex testing, they devised new policies in response…
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OII Australia, together with OII Aotearoa/NZ, today released a submission to the American Psychiatric Association regarding the draft Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition.
Testimony on marriage equality by Gina Wilson (OII Australia) contrasts with testimony by Chris Meney for the Catholic Life, Marriage and Family Centre.
Our submission to the 2012 Senate inquiry on marriage equality.
People born with intersex variations have many different gender identities; what we share in common is being born with atypical and stigmatised sex characteristics that do not meet stereotypical expectations for men or women.
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