…ummary Australian Human Rights Commission reports can be found at: https://humanrights.gov.au/intersex-report-2021, accompanied by a series of fact sheets. General Practice Supervisors Australia In 2021, General Practice Supervisors Australia (GPSA) published a guide to LGBTQIA+ Health and Inclusive Healthcare in General Practice, together with a standalone resource on the health needs of people with intersex variations. LGBTIQA+ and intersex heal…
…stralia supports a federal Bill of Rights and amendments to the Australian Human Rights Act that ensure equal rights for all Australians. OII Australia asks that when that Bill is drafted or those amendments are made that inclusive language is used and that the word ‘intersex’ is included in that language. OII Australia maintains that where simple language is used it is seldom interpreted to mean things other than male or female, man or woman. We…
…rector of IHRA, welcomes the resolution: Thank you to South Africa and the Human Rights Council for approving this first resolution on the rights of people born with intersex variations. Access to sport is a litmus test for the rights of intersex people, highlighting the ways that our legal birth classifications can be ignored, our bodies are sites of public scrutiny and stigmatisation, and our right to bodily integrity disregarded. Previous IAAF…
…t the Victorian government will come to terms with the need to protect the human rights of people born with intersex variations in medical settings, and act on that need. Similarly, we hear repeated claims of leadership by different Australian governments on intersex issues. We are seeing a trend towards consideration of the needs of intersex populations, but this work is sadly often grounded in misconceptions (notably the ideas that intersex peop…
…cteristics. Sydney, Australia: Australian Human Rights Commission. https://humanrights.gov.au/intersex-report-2021. OII Australia. 2014. Intersex and ANZPATH. https://ihra.org.au/27702/intersex-and-anzpath/. Senate of Australia Community Affairs References Committee. 2013. Involuntary or Coerced Sterilisation of Intersex People in Australia. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Involuntary_Sterilisation/…
…thout. We review this opposition here. Global organisations Physicians for Human Rights In October 2017, Physicians for Human Rights, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, published a statement opposing non-medically necessary surgeries without consent: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) today called for an end to all medically unnecessary surgical procedures that seek to alter gonads, genitals, or internal sex organs of children born with atypi…
…medical settings: no; 2013 Senate report not implemented; 2021 Australian Human Rights Commission report not implemented Elimination of discriminatory practices in the application of assisted reproductive treatments: no Apology and redress for harmful practices: no Human rights-affirming standards of care: no Protections from discrimination on grounds of sex characteristics: no Protections from discrimination on grounds of intersex status: 2013 F…
…ex human rights movement in our countries, under six headings: a preamble, human rights and legal reform; health and wellbeing; peer support; allies; and education, awareness and employment. Affirm the Darlington Statement Download PDF copy Read on the Darlington Statement website Read on the AISSGA site Read on the Intersex Day site Read via the QUT ePrints service Most participants at the Darlington retreat. Photo courtesy of Phoebe Hart. Darlin…
…ralia. Today we celebrate 10 years of advocacy and work to ensure that the human rights and health of people with intersex variations are recognised and respected. Morgan Carpenter, co-executive director of IHRA, became a director of the company at incorporation ten years ago. He says: In that time, we have succeeded in promoting change in some areas, and faced setbacks in others. Some of our strongest achievements have been collaborative, in comm…
…and bodily integrity, but not all modifications to sex characteristics are human rights violations, some might be regarded as reparative or affirming of a gender or religious identity, when freely chosen. The term ‘sex characteristics’ is already used to define intersex and tackle violence and discrimination against intersex bodies, including in Maltese legislation that protects all children from unconsented and non-urgent modifications to their s…
…about their bodies“, while work takes place to develop protocols that meet human rights standards. Publication of the report builds upon previous work at international and national level. The Circular quotes a 2013 report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an Argentinian human rights report, and a 2015 World Health Organization report on sexual health and the law. Mauro Cabral has played a significant role in each of those arenas. T…
…cs in the Context of Medical Interventions Consultation Paper. https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/sexual-orientation-gender-identity-intersex-status/projects/protecting-human-rights-people. [4] Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 2019. ‘Background Note on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People’. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Discrimination/Pages/BackgroundViolationsIntersexPeople.aspx. Asia Pacific Forum of National H…
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