…as we have Commissioners for Race, Disability, Age and other areas,” said Ms Goldner. For media comment please contact: Anna Brown, Convener, Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby on 0417 484 438 or Anna@vglrl.org.au Tony Briffa, Organisation Intersex International (Australia) on 0418 398 906 or tony.briffa@briffa.org Sally Goldner, Spokesperson, Transgender Victoria on 0407 946 242 or enquiries@transgendervictoria.com…
…ation Bill (HRAD), Exposure Draft, by OII Australia [11], AISSGA [12], and Tony Briffa [13]. OII Australia state, in the first paragraph: OII Australia is a national body by and for intersex people. We promote the human rights of intersex people in Australia, and provide information, education and peer support. OII Australia is a not-for-profit company, recognised by the Australian Taxation Office as a charitable institution. We are not publicly-f…
…hts concerns, and policy changes that will lead to better health outcomes. Tony Briffa said: This is a turning point in the way that intersex people in Australia are seen and treated. We have long fought for our voices to be heard, so to have the Australian Parliament acknowledge our existence and our issues – as discussed in detail in the Senate report – is vital. Today heralds a moment in our movement where our politicians were united in express…
…Wilson, president OII Australia, gina@oii.org.au 0418 290 336. Melbourne – Tony Briffa, board member OII Australia and AISSGA, tony.briffa@briffa.org, 0418 398 906. The legislation ComLaw: Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013, No. 98, 2013. C2013A00098 ComLaw provides the definitive version of the Act. ComLaw: The consolidated Sex Discrimination Act 1984, including (as of writing on 7 Nov…
…ase contact: Gina Wilson, president, at 0418 290 336 or at gina@oii.org.au Tony Briffa, spokesperson, at 0418 398 906 or at tony.briffa@briffa.org Report of the Senate Inquiry All submissions to the Senate Inquiry Summary of the OII Australia submission on the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill Joint statement on the report by Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby, OII Australia, and TransGender Victoria An article on our presentation to the…
…herwise. Contact Morgan Carpenter at morgan.carpenter@ihra.org.au. Contact Tony Briffa at tony.briffa@briffa.org. Contact Agli Zavros-Orr at agli@diversitywise.com.au. Recent examples of harmful practices Unnecessary medical treatment affecting children with ‘XY DSDs’ seen over a 10-year period at a Brisbane paediatric and adolescent gynaecology centre (Adikari et al. 2019). These are the youth affected by these regulations: Partial androgen insen…
…Victorian government. From December 2016 to May 2021, Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa were employed as our joint executive directors. Tony stepped down from this staff role at the end of May this year and we appointed Cody Smith to a senior projects officer position in August. We’ve also been fortunate to have Florin Douglas (2019-2020) and later Clare MacDonald (from September 2021) as part-time administrators. Our volunteer directors give of th…
…performed before the child was old enough to competently provide consent. Tony compared this with female genital mutilation and also raised numerous issues around social inclusion. Tony discussed the concept of ‘heteronormativity’, which means people are assumed to be exclusively male or female and heterosexual. ‘While most intersex people look like other males and females externally,’ she explained, ‘some are born looking atypical; in those case…
…e I was lying if I filled out a document and I put one or the other,” says Briffa, who has tried living as both a female and a male. Briffa was born with Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, one of over 30 intersex conditions. “I was born both and I feel both and I fiercely want to be recognised in the gender I was born which is both,” declares Briffa. For the first six weeks of our lives we are arguably all intersex – a status defined in the…
…raising. Photo: Paul Byrne-Moroney Williamstown Town Hall, lit up. Photo: Tony Briffa https://ihra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/video-1572513493.mp4 Public and invitation events for Intersex Awareness Day 2019 in Australia include: 21 October in Melbourne: Watch Intersexion at Williamstown Library (Vic) on 21 October. The film will be introduced by Cr Tony Briffa, IHRA co-executive director and the first openly intersex person elected to pub…
…e “Darlington Statement”, comment or to arrange interviews please contact: Tony Briffa, Co-Executive Director, OII Australia Email: tony.briffa at oii.org.au Morgan Carpenter, Co-Executive Director, OII Australia Email: morgan.carpenter at oii.org.au Bonnie Hart, President AISSGA Email: bonnie at aissga.org.au Mani Mitchell, Executive Director, Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand Email: mani.mitchell at xtra.co.nz Imogen Yang, Co-founder, Bladder…
…a, Canada, the United States, the European Union, and others. For example, Tony Briffa, Mayor of Hobson’s Bay, Australia, is the world’s first openly intersex elected official. In June, intersex ally Silvan Agius, ILGA-Europe’s Policy Director, co-authored and published the European Commission report “Trans and Intersex People: Discrimination against trans and intersex people on the grounds of sex, gender identity and gender expression” In additio…
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