Intersex: intersectionalities with disabled people
The lived experience of intersex people, and the intersex movement, have many intersectionalities with experiences of disability and the disability movement.
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Intersex and intersectionalities
The rights and concerns of intersex people do not simply overlap the rights and concerns of women, of LGBT people and of disabled people, we exist at the intersection between these different forms of discourse.
Intersex Awareness Day, 2012
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 Tasmania’s proposed Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill
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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Intersex people and marriage, an analysis by Gina Wilson
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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Gina Wilson interviewed for new BeyondBlue campaign
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.
Intersex health issues 2012 – a brief summary
Please note that this document is no longer current, nor an accurate guide to the demands of intersex advocates in Australia. It has been superseded by the Malta Declaration, a Senate committee inquiry into the “Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people” and the 2017 Darlington Statement.
OII Australia congratulates Caster Semenya on her Olympic medal
We don’t know if Caster Semenya is an intersex woman or not. Despite numerous statements in the local press, we are not aware of any official public disclosure regarding her status. Nevertheless, she has faced salacious enquiry and humiliation as if she is. We salute her strength in the face of adversity, and congratulate her…
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Chris Somers: “Reflecting the Androgynous Perspective through Art (an Exegesis by an Epicene Artist)”
The M.Ed. thesis of Chris Somers, Vice President of OII Australia, has recently become available online. Submitted in 2003, Chris’s work was considered ground breaking at the time. Chris says: The thesis is the presentation of my life experiences in narrative form and through my own photographic artworks – It is a comprehensive impression of…
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Dreger, Feder and Tamar-Mattis on dexamethasone to prevent homosexuality and virilisation in CAH women
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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Rainbow Labor Conference report
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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Our response to the ACT law reform report “Beyond the Binary”
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.
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