…ia, Iceland, Mexico, The Netherlands; GATE; Intersex Asia, IHRA – Intersex Human Rights Australia, OII Europe and Iranti. Speakers: Opening remarks: Kirsti Kauppi (Ambassador, Permanent Representant of Finland in Geneva) Keynote speech: Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health) Panel discussion moderated by Crystal Hendricks (Iranti, Chair of ILGA World Intersex Committee) with panelists: Morgan Carpenter (bioethicist and…
…13, with independent oversight, and clinical practices operating “within a human rights framework”.[2] Subsequent anecdotal evidence, Family Court cases and research shows that such practices continue,[3] with hundreds of relevant surgeries happening each year.[4] The UN Human Rights Committee (2017),[5] Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Affairs (2013)[6] and the Committee on Eliminating Discrimination against Women (2018)[7] have also mad…
…consent violate their rights. They are recognised as harmful practices by human rights institutions and public health institutions, and the subject of new legal reforms in the Australian Capital Territory. Like all stigmatised populations, a range of different language is used to describe intersex traits, but many individuals with these traits lack access to words that can help them understand themselves. Contested umbrella terms include the clin…
…es. When performed on individuals without their personal informed consent, human rights defenders and institutions have found these interventions to be harmful practices and violations of rights to bodily integrity, non-discrimination, equality before the law, privacy, and freedom from torture, ill-treatment, and experimentation. Such interventions have been documented by WHO in publications on Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law, and Eliminat…
…ple with innate variations of sex characteristics should be protected from human rights violations in medical settings. This work includes a new report on Ensuring Health and Bodily Integrity by the Australian Human Rights Commission. The ACT government and the Victorian Minister for Health and Equality have made welcome and important commitments to reform in their jurisdictions, including prohibiting harmful practices and providing for independen…
…a community consensus statement that sets out the demands of the intersex human rights movement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It calls for recognition of our right to bodily integrity, and outlines the systemic changes needed to ensure our enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and other human rights. There are five nominees: the National LGBTI Health Alliance, People with Disability Australia, Senator Janet Rice, ACT Lab…
…st opportunity, after many years of campaigning, to place our most serious human rights concerns before Parliament. Medical interventions on intersex infants, children and adolescents have been taking place in Australia with insufficient medical evidence, and insufficient emphasis placed on the human rights of the child and future adult. Genital surgeries and sterilisations create lifelong patients and there’s significant evidence of trauma. At a…
…to be told. They harm community organising. They harmfully reduce intersex human rights issues to a matter of legal gender recognition. They do not reflect intersex diversity, and nor do they reflect the diversity of the nonbinary population. These factors mean that any supposition that intersex people can be recognised by a single “intersex” sex or gender classification lacks justification. It is never appropriate to consign intersex people to a…
…h intersex bodies are subjected to medical interventions that fail to meet human rights norms.[1] A historical and deliberate process of silencing[2] has ensured that many people with intersex traits or variations are unaware of their original sex characteristics.[3] Many intersex people do not discover their intersex trait until puberty, trying to conceive, or through random chance; such discoveries may frequently take place via blood tests. Thei…
…fore the law (article 5); ensure that children have full enjoyment “of all human rights and fundamental freedoms”, that “the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration” and that children have the right to express their views in accordance with their age and maturity (article 7); exercise of legal capacity and equal recognition (article 12); access to justice (article 13); that persons may not be subjected to medical or scientific…
…cteristics. Sydney, Australia: Australian Human Rights Commission. https://humanrights.gov.au/intersex-report-2021. Yogyakarta Principles. 2017. The Yogyakarta Principles Plus 10: Additional Principles and State Obligations on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics, to Complement the Yogyakarta Principles. http://www.yogyakartaprinciples.org/pr…
…sex Forum, following. [5] Australian Human Rights Commission, 2009, http://humanrights.gov.au/genderdiversity/sex_files2009.html [6] See OII Australia, “Intersex and the Sex Files: good for trans*, bad for intersex”, https://oii.org.au/13524/sex-files-good-trans-not-good-intersex/ and also “On administrative correction of NSW intersex birth registrations, https://oii.org.au/4856/on-birth-registrations/ [7] Australian Human Rights Commission HRAD s…
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