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Intersex is not a gender identity, and the implications for legislation
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.
OII Australia tenders resignation from marriage equality campaigner CAAH
It is with great regret that we tender the resignation of OII Australia from CAAH – Community Action Against Homophobia. For some years now OII Australia, represented by our president, Gina Wilson, has participated in CAAH’s Campaign for Marriage Equality meetings and actions. We welcomed the opportunity to raise intersex experiences of homophobia and contribute to…
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The Project interviews Tony Briffa and Bonnie Hart
Last night Australian news and current affairs infotainment television show The Project reported on intersex. Two intersex Australians were interviewed and a doctor was asked to give his views on delaying cosmetic genital surgery and hormone treatment beyond the time of birth until the child can consent to such treatment. The show’s reporters appear to be somewhat confused about intersex,…
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We thank Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC) for her intersex advocacy
Legal advocate for intersex people Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice – AIC has further contributed to public education about intersex people in a recent, at-length and in-depth interview with San Francisco Bay Area radio station KPFA. The program – now available as a downloadable MP3 file – was broadcast on the Against the Grain program on Monday, March 5, 2012. Remember all…
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Joy 94.9 ‘Take Care on Air’ interview with Morgan on intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI
Morgan Carpenter, board member of OII Australia, was recently interviewed by JOY 94.9 radio program Take Care {on} Air on the subject of intersex intersectionalities with other aspects of LGBTQI. The podcast MP3 audio file has become available to download and listen to. Downoad the interview MP3 direct Read a 10 minute conference presentation on intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI
Submission to the Australian Attorney-General’s National Human Rights Action Plan consultation
Our submission on the National Human Rights Action Plan, Consultation Version.
An annulment of marriage due to being intersex in the Family Court: In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C).
A Brisbane Family Court case in 1979, In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C), annulled a marriage on the basis that an intersex man could not be legally married because marriage can only be between someone who is seen to be wholly male and someone who is seen to be wholly female….
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Tony Briffa, intersex Mayor of Hobsons Bay interviewed by Word for Word on Joy 94.9
Councillor Tony Briffa JP, mayor of Hobsons Bay, Victoria, and the world’s first known intersex mayor, interviewed by Word for Word on Joy 94.9 radio. Download audio file
Intersex: intersectionalities with lesbian and gay people
IHRA’s Morgan Carpenter wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne in February 2012. The focus is on intersectionalities with same-sex attracted people.
Creating a third gender creates a whole new set of problems
A number of erstwhile allies of intersex people have supposed that intersex people want the legislative creation of a third gender or a third sex. Sex – male and female in a sex binary system, and gender – man and woman under the gender binary system, are two very different though related things. The reality is that…
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Lydia Guterman, Open Society Foundations: “Why Are Doctors Still Performing Genital Surgery on Infants”
Over at the Open Society Foundations Lydia Guterman asks the question “Why Are Doctors Still Performing Genital Surgery on Infants?” The answer is simple – so long as doctors, commentators, bioethicists, parents, erstwhile allies – and intersex people ourselves – believe that intersex is a “disorder”, a DSD then doctors will continue to try to…
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