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.
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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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Medical research: No (wo)man is an island and subjective perceptions of genital normality
The Journal of Sexual Medicine has published, in 2011, significant research on the subjective nature of “normal” female genitals. The study, by Reitsma, Mourits, Koning, Pascal and van der Lei, is entitled “No (wo)man is an island – the influence of physicians’ personal predisposition to labia minora appearance on their clinical decision making: a cross-sectional…
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New Idea Mag: Intersex is “Shocking Discovery”, in one-pager on Phoebe Hart
Intersex documentary filmmaker Phoebe Hart appears in an article in popular Australian women’s magazine New Idea this week. The article contains some errors.
Submission on the proposed Commonwealth consolidation of Anti-Discrimination legislation
Our submission on the proposed Commonwealth consolidation of Anti-Discrimination legislation.
APEG meeting on intersex cases before the Family Court
We are gravely troubled by attempts by the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group to take “special medical procedures” on intersex children out of Family Court jurisdiction.
Thank you and happy holidays, Sen!
OII Australia wishes to thank another of our longstanding allies in the Australian LGBTQI community, Senthorun Raj, for all his support over the years. Happy holidays, Sen!
Thank you and happy holidays, Corey Irlam!
OII Australia wishes to thank one of our longstanding allies in the Australian LGBTQI community, Corey Irlam, for all his support over the years. Happy holidays, Corey!
Marriage Equality Rally at ALP National Conference, Sydney, 3rd December 2011
OII Australia members were inside the ALP National Conference at Darling Harbour and were supporting the marriage equality rally outside the conference venue on Saturday December 3 2011. Intersex Australians lost the clear right to marriage when the Howard Liberal federal government amended the Marriage Act 1961, changing the definition of marriage as between two…
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An Australian intersex world first: intersex inclusion throughout Labor federal governing party policy platform reforms
OII Australia ally Rainbow Labor has welcomed changes in the Australian Labor Party policy platform that further support the LGBTI community and especially intersex people. As a result, Australia leads internationally in being intersex-inclusive. Summary of changes to the ALP platform: Commitment under Labor Values to health care and specific health care needs of GLBTI Australians (140A)…
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ABC radio station 774 ABC Melbourne’s Jon Faine interviews Hobsons Bay mayor intersex person Tony Briffa for The Conversation Hour
INTERSEX person and recently elected mayor of Victorian municipality Hobsons Bay Tony Briffa was interviewed by Jon Faine of ABC Radio’s The Conversation Hour. Tony Briffa is the first local government leader publicly known to be intersex.
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