…d to help make further progress in Australia and internationally? Intersex Human Rights Australia is seeking Expressions of Interest for the IHRA Board. We are seeking people with a wide range of capabilities together with diverse lived cultural and/or identity experiences, and a diversity of connections and networks. You will likely have strong skills and experience to contribute, but you do not need to have an existing connection with IHRA to be…
…nd other disabilities (Whitbourn 2018; Human Rights Watch 2018; Sharma and Human Rights Watch 2018). Individuals in detention We have observed criminal cases where the medicalisation of an intersex variation – and the reporting of this – means that a trait is not necessarily recognisable as an intersex variation, except to people with lived experience. In some cases, such reports have formed part of a defendant’s testimony. It is understandable th…
…n how religion treats intersex people in Australia. Submission: Australian Human Rights Commission Race Discrimination Unit GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 Dear Commissioner, In response to your call for submissions to the Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century paper I make the following submission on behalf of Organisation Intersex International Australia (OII). One might suppose that though intersex and religion, our respective freedoms…
…hich are run by and for people with disability and grounded in a normative human rights framework. People with Disability Australia (“PWDA”) is a national disability rights and advocacy organisation, and member of DPO Australia. PWDA’s primary membership is made up of people with disability and organisations primarily constituted by people with disability. IHRA also endorsed a joint submission by Australian Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs),…
…ith a definition of intersex by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Intersex people are born with physical or biological sex characteristics (such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) that do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies. For some intersex people these traits are apparent at birth, while for others they emerge later in life, often at puberty.[1a] We…
…sive way. Publication of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill The Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill Exposure Draft, published late in 2012, was initially a matter of concern, positioning intersex as a form of gender identity, and only protecting intersex people (of “indeterminate sex”) who genuinely identified as male or female. From the 2012 exposure draft: gender identity means: … (b) the identification, on a genuine basis, by a…
…m such interventions, and related shame and secrecy. The UN and many other human rights institutions recognise them as harmful practices and forms of violence and ill treatment; they must end. ABC’s You Can’t Ask That season 4 episode 3 focuses on intersex people. Watch in ABC iView What are DSDs? Read Tony Briffa on “Disorders of sex development“ In 2006, clinicians replaced the term intersex in medical settings with the term “disorders of sex de…
…related data from the study by Jones. ‘Submission on the Proposed Federal Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill’. 8 December 2012. This submission contained a number of case studies. Carpenter, Morgan, and Dawn Hough. 2014. Employers’ Guide to Intersex Inclusion. This paper contains a number of case studies. Body shaming is an intersex issue We gather evidence through community consultation and support for independent research. These sources…
…tersex people in different regions and highlighted widespread and horrific human rights violations that still persist all over the world. These include but are not limited to infanticide, intersex genital mutilation and other harmful medical practices, lack of appropriate and consented health care as well as discrimination in access to education, other services and employment. While intersex issues have become more visible and acknowledged since t…
…LGBT advocates, parents and family members. Our work seeks to promote the human rights and bodily autonomy of people with intersex variations, improve health outcomes, end non-necessary forced medical interventions, and recognise the diversity of intersex bodies, identities and life experiences. Some notable events and highlights include: 2008 December 2008: website registered by Karin Gottschalk. 2008: Chris Somers, Tracy Reibel and David Whyatt…
…that we pursue the same goals, obscures the specific goals of the intersex human rights movement. Read Intersex surgery disregards children’s human rights, Tony Briffa’s letter to Nature in April 2004 Read What do intersex people need from doctors?, an article in the December 2018 issue of the RANZCOG O&G Magazine by Morgan Carpenter Issues to do with sex and gender markers are not the most fundamental issue that intersex movement seeks to address…
…t be heard. Our issues are clear when regarded as issues of body autonomy, human rights, and individual choice of expression. Alone these statements are momentous, but the Senators also told some of our personal stories, and paid tribute to members of intersex-led organisations, OII Australia and the AIS Support Group Australia. The Committee report was ground-breaking, we believe it’s the first parliamentary inquiry anywhere into intersex health…
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