ABC’s The Drum publishes article by Morgan Carpenter: Normalising surgeries must end
Morgan has an opinion piece on the ABC’s opinion pages, The Drum, this afternoon: “We must put an end to normalising surgery” on intersex infants and children.
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Revised policy on identification documents
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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Gay News Network: We must put an end to normalising surgery
Gay News Network has kindly published an opinion piece by OII Australia president Morgan Carpenter: While it may not be foremost in the minds of many gay men, the clitoris is the only part of any human body that’s purely designed for pleasure. But is too much of a good thing a bad thing? Research…
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Open birth sex assignments do not reduce surgical interventions
Blank or indeterminate classifications on infant’s birth certificates do not, alone, reduce the likelihood of surgical interventions. This might seem like a non sequitur, but it turns out to be fundamentally important because many people do argue that moves in Germany to establish similarly open sex assignment polices for some intersex infants at birth will…
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Deutsche Welle: Third sex option on birth certificates
Morgan, OII Australia president, is quoted in this Deutsche Welle article by Natalie Muller about Germany’s problematic and mandatory new third option on birth certificates for some intersex infants.
Statement on the Senate report ‘Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia’
Our statement on the new cross-party report, “Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia”, published on 25 October 2013 and raising major concerns about medical ethics and the human rights of people with intersex variations in Australia.
Intersex Awareness Day, 2013
Here are this year’s Intersex Awareness Day words, by Morgan Carpenter, OII Australia president.
An initial overview of the report of the Senate Community Affairs Committee on intersex
The Australian Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee today published its long anticipated report, “Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people”. This is the first federal inquiry or report on intersex issues in Australia, and one of only a few internationally. It was the first and most significant opportunity that we have ever had to raise…
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When is marriage equality not marriage equality?
Tony Briffa on marriage equality and legislative proposals in Tasmania and ACT.
Morgan on intersex in The Guardian, “Australia can lead the way…”
On 18 June 2013, The Guardian newspaper kindly published an article by OII Australia president Morgan Carpenter on recent progress for intersex people in Australia.
Council of Europe adopts resolution on children’s right to physical integrity
Overnight Australian time, the Council of Europe, a 47-member country institution that overseas human rights, pharma and many other issues across those countries, adopted a resolution on the protection of children’s rights to physical integrity. A “provisional” version of Resolution 1952 (2013) showing “Text adopted by the Assembly on 1 October 2013” includes a specific…
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Intersex population figures
There are no firm population figures for people with intersex variations, due to stigma, misconceptions, lack of accurate recording of data, arbitrary definitions, and ideological values.
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