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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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.
Maxx Ginnane’s documentary on Caster Semenya aired on SBS Australia this evening, and is still available on demand for 15 days.
Chris Somers xxy, Vice President of OII Australia, features in this video segment from Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, via a nice piece by Anna North on Buzzfeed via the Huffington Post. Hart was diagnosed with androgen insensitivity syndrome — in which the body is chromosomally male but doesn’t respond to testosterone… In the film, she…
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Gina Wilson and Morgan Carpenter from OII Australia participated in the National LGBTI Health Alliance‘s first intersex and trans roundtable at the offices of the Australian Human Rights Commission on 18 and 19 June. Other intersex participants were Sandra, president of the AIS Support Group Australia, and Andrew, representing a Tasmanian group. From the Press…
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Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young talk in an important Stanford School of Medicine podcast on the testing of female athletes to identify – and compel treatment of – those with intersex traits.
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.
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