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Media statement: Fourth International Intersex Forum

…ternational Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Organisation (ILGA). Contacts Kimberly Zieselman, interACT (US) Kimberly@interACTadvocates.org Holly Greenberry, Intersex UK info@intersexuk.org Dan Christian Ghattas, OII Europe dan@oiieurope.org Morgan Carpenter, OII Australia morgan.carpenter@oii.org.au Laura Inter, Brújula Intersexual (Mexico) intersexualmexico@gmail.com Miriam van der Have, NNID (NL) miriam.vanderhave@nnid.nl Hiker Chiu, OII…

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UN committee on disability issues comments on intersex

…Committee on the Rights of the Child in June 2014. OII Australia president Morgan Carpenter was also pleased to moderate a thematic briefing by our partners and friends OII Germany and Zwischengeschlecht to the CRPD on intersex issues on 26 March 2015. We look forward to the day when a UN Committee makes such observations about Australia. In this connection, we were delighted to contribute to an NGO submission on the UN Universal Periodic Review,…

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Intersex is not a gender identity, and the implications for legislation

…ors?, an article in the December 2018 issue of the RANZCOG O&G Magazine by Morgan Carpenter → Read Intersex surgery disregards children’s human rights, Tony Briffa’s letter to Nature in April 2004 → Current medical and legal approaches to people born with variations of sex characteristics, are contradictory. Morgan Carpenter (2018) states that: intersex bodies remain “normalized” or eliminated by medicine, while society and the law “others” inters…

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PBS policy change on testosterone

…lian Doctor (24 February 2015) PBS to restrict GP testosterone prescribing Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa at OII Australia (29 October 2013) Statement on the Senate report ‘Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia’ Morgan Carpenter at OII Australia (20 August 2009) Testosterone: suffering the system, not the medication Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein (23 December 2014) Seit November 2011 nehmen Frauen mit komp…

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New paper by Karkazis and Carpenter: IAAF regulations create “impossible choices”

…he sex and gender identity of the athletes regulated. Katrina Karkazis and Morgan Carpenter. 2018. ‘Impossible “choices”: The inherent harms of regulating women’s testosterone in sport’. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 15(4). The new IAAF regulations unwisely and inappropriately implicate all intersex people through their use of “DSD” terminology and reference to new sex classifications. Acknowledgements These publications were produced in connecti…

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Employers’ guide to intersex inclusion

…ents of intersex children. Additional information and a glossary of terms. Morgan Carpenter, president of OII Australia (now Intersex Human Rights Australia), stated: Intersex status appeared as a new attribute in Commonwealth anti-discrimination law in 2013, yet employer and community understanding of intersex remains limited. This guide is here to help. It hopes to enable more people with intersex variations to just be ourselves, as we are. Soci…

From Harmful Practices and Instrumentalisation, towards Legislative Protections and Community-Owned Healthcare Services: The Context and Goals of the Intersex Movement in Australia

“The Context and Goals of the Intersex Movement in Australia” – new article

…nymous reviewers for their generous and thoughtful feedback on this paper. He would also like to thank participants in the Centring Intersex conference, in February 2023, for their kind feedback on a presentation of the issues discussed in this paper. Carpenter, Morgan. 2024. ‘From Harmful Practices and Instrumentalisation, towards Legislative Protections and Community-Owned Healthcare Services: The Context and Goals of the Intersex Movement in Au…

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Shadow report submission to the UN CRPD

…127). Larger numbers of “masculinising” genital surgeries also take place (Carpenter 2018b, 471–73). CEDAW has described these as “harmful practices” in concluding observations on Australia (2018, para. 26). These harmful practices occur despite rhetoric by Australian governments that denies them or asserts changes to clinical practices (for example, Department of Communities 2012, 14), and that asserts recognition and valuing of intersex people (…

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Submission to the AHRC on protecting rights in medical settings

…Rights Commission 2018), in the International Classification of Diseases (Carpenter 2018c), and in research papers (Intersex Human Rights Australia 2018a; Carpenter 2018a). Data available suggest that hundreds of relevant surgeries happen each year (Carpenter 2018a). These practices continue despite a rhetoric of inclusion, recognition and support by governments for LGBTI populations, and also a series of guidelines, principles and statements by…

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Carpenter: intersex people and the Yogyakarta Principles

…and importance of the new Principles. The journal article can be found at: Carpenter, Morgan. 2020. ‘Intersex Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Sex Characteristics and the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10’. Culture, Health & Sexuality, July, 1–17. doi:10.1080/13691058.2020.1781262. An author manuscript version is freely available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343022292_Intersex_human_rights_sexual_orientation_gender_ide…

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Joint statement to the Congregation for Catholic Education

…novan Ackley III, Ph.D. Intersex and Faith documentary, Advisory Committee Morgan Carpenter Hana Aoi, Vivir y Ser Intersex Carlos Henrique Ramos de Oliveira Jeff Cagandahan Kimberly Anderson, Sacramento Native American Health Center Camino Baró, GRAPSIA (Grupo de apoyo a personas con síndrome de insensibilidad a los andrógenos y condiciones relacionadas) Jawa Timur Maricarmen, Mother of intersex person Betsy Driver, Mayor, Flemington Borough, NJ E…

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National LGBTIQ Domestic and Family Violence conference

…rdinary: All of the sessions were excellent, but I was very, very moved by Morgan Carpenter’s presentation – I learnt a lot about a subject I previously had no idea about. …the conference committee have managed a quick look at the feedback forms and overwhelmingly the most popular session was yours. Indeed, many attendees will now go back into their services and start conversations about what true affirmative LGBTI practice might mean. Providing i…