Resources listing
This page is a curated listing of key resources available on our site. It is occasionally updated.
The basics
Intersex for allies
- Welcome – a brief introduction and overview.
- Intersex for allies – our introductory guide to intersex (periodically updated).
- Defining intersex – a collection of definitions from some key sources (periodically updated).
- Darlington Statement – a common platform on intersex community goals in Australia and Aotearoa/NZ (March 2017).
- Intersex intersectionalities including with women, disabled people and LGBT peoples.
- Demographic data – based on information from a large 2015 Australian study.
- On the number of intersex people.
- Including intersex people in forms, (periodically updated).
- Including intersex people in research studies and surveys (periodically updated).
- Style guide on intersex and terminology – a useful guide for journalists and writers (periodically updated).
- Malta Declaration – public statement by the third International Intersex Forum (2 December 2013).
Parenting
Intersex for parents
- Intersex for parents (periodically updated).
- The ethics of genetic selection against intersex traits (29 April 2014).
Human rights reports
- United Nations for Intersex Awareness and statement on ending harmful practices (October 2016).
- World Health Organization report, Sexual health, human rights and the law (15 June 2015).
- Council of Europe report, Human rights and intersex people (12 May 2015).
- World Health Organization, OHCHR, UN Women, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA and UNICEF joint statement on Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization (30 May 2014).
- Australian Senate committee report on the Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia (25 October 2013).
- Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur, on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (February 2013).
- San Francisco Human Rights Commission, A human rights investigation into the medical “normalization” of intersex people (2005).
Healthcare and medicine
Find out more about bodily integrity and human rights violations on intersex people
- Read our introductory page on bodily integrity and intersex people, January 2019
- Read our introductory page on eugenics and intersex people, January 2019
- Submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission on reform of the family law system May 2018 and November 2018.
- Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission on protecting rights in medical settings (September 2018).
- Shadow Report submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women June 2018 (with Committee response).
- UN Human Rights Committee calls for recognition of right to bodily integrity November 2017 and our submission, September 2017.
- The Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 launched (November 2017).
- Statement on the Senate report ‘Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia’ (29 October 2013).
- Submission on the medical “normalisation” of intersex people, including infants, children and adolescents – concluding submission to a Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation (12 September 2013).
- The ethics of genetic selection against intersex traits (29 April 2014).
- Medicare is now gender neutral (24 July 2013).
Discrimination in different settings
Intersex people can experience discrimination due to our physical characteristics and assumptions about our identities
- Read our introductory page on discrimination against intersex people (January 2019).
- Intersex inclusion in workplaces (periodically updated).
- Intersex inclusion in sport (periodically updated).
- Issues in education settings (periodically updated).
- Issues in detention settings (periodically updated).
- Marriage and people with intersex variations, a submission (9 January 2017).
Intersectionalities
Intersex intersectionalities
- Intersex is about biology; intersex people have the same range of gender identities and sexual orientations as non-intersex people.
- Intersex intersectionalities an introduction (periodically updated).
- On intersectionalities with lesbian and gay communities (February 2012).
- On intersectionalities with trans experiences (periodically updated).
- On intersectionalities with disability (periodically updated).
Terminology
Style guide for journalists and writers
- Style guide for writers and journalists (11 June 2009, periodically updated).
- What is intersex? Defining intersex (2 August 2013, periodically updated).
- On new terms like ‘Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse’ (‘ISGD’), ‘TIGD’ and similar (22 May 2011).
- Discussion paper on “sex and gender diverse” terminology – a call to end use of that term (9 January 2013).
Identity and identification documents
Intersex people have diverse sex classifications and gender identities. This page presents background information and guidance on how to respect the diversity of intersex lived experience.
- Identification documents (5 Janaury 2018).
- Demographic data – based on information from a large 2015 Australian study, including material on how people born with atypical sex characteristics identify.
- On gender identity and intersex (21 March 2012).
- High Court recognises “non-specific” gender identity, implications for intersex people (2 April 2014).
- Miraculous thinking on the benefits of third classifications does no-one any good (December 2016).
- German proposals for a “third gender” on birth certificates miss the mark (20 August 2013).
Data collection
Including intersex people in forms
- Including intersex people in forms (25 May 2012, periodically updated).
- Including intersex people in research studies and surveys (periodically updated).
Symbols
An intersex flag
- An intersex flag (5 July 2013).
- The OII Australia logo (1 January 2012).
- The orchid is a common symbol of intersex, as used in the film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure and our Intersex Awareness Day posts: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011.
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