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Submission on the One Nation NSW education bill

…and education minister on 19 August 2020. Our submission was coauthored by Morgan Carpenter and Dr Agli Zavros-Orr. Specific areas of concern with the bill: The Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 bill and the second reading speech by Mr Latham present three radically different ideas of who intersex people are: the bill refers to ‘people who are, by their chromosomes, male or female but are born with disorders of sexual dif…

Morgan Carpenter (OII Australia), Julius Kaggwa (SIPD, Uganda), Hiker Chiu (Oii-Chinese, Taiwan), Kimberly Zieselman (AIC, US) and Dan Ghattas (OII Europe, Germany)

UN side event on intersex and human rights

…Rights Council with intersex human rights defenders from five continents. Morgan Carpenter (Australia) moderated a panel featuring Julius Kaggwa (Support Initiative for People with atypical Sex Development, Uganda), Hiker Chiu (Oii-Chinese, Taiwan), Kimberly Zieselman (Advocates for Informed Choice, US) and Dan Ghattas (OII Europe, Germany). The event was very kindly supported by ILGA and COC Netherlands. Thanks also to Mauro Cabral of Justicia I…

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Senate hearings on the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill

…on made reference to the manner in which they would deal with such issues. Morgan Carpenter: The Australian Association of Christian Schools, who you heard from yesterday, did say in their written submission—I do not think it was raised during the verbal session—said that in relation to the issue of gender identity AACS and its member schools have great empathy for those who face daily conflict related to physical genital ambiguity or hormonal dys…

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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…

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Submission to the ACT government on prohibiting harmful medical practices

…rta Principles plus 10 (Yogyakarta Principles 2017). Co-executive director Morgan Carpenter was a member of the drafting committee and is a signatory of these Principles. Concluding observations to Australia by UN Treaty Bodies. Our submissions to the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Law Reform Commission in 2018, which set out a series of responses to questions of oversight and other matters that are relevant to this discussi…

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Media statement – International Classification of Diseases 11 and intersex people

…tions on the ICD-11, including drafting submissions and a journal article. Morgan Carpenter, co-executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) says: “We have been dismayed that the World Health Organization has deepened the pathologisation of intersex traits in the ICD-11. The ICD-11 will not only introduce a controversial language of “disorders of sex development” into the ICD, which we know promotes ideas that intersex bodies need…

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Federal election 2019 – party positions on intersex human rights and health

…lia survey People with Disability Australia election priorities Commentary Morgan Carpenter states: We warmly welcome the acknowledgement by all parties of the need to address the distinct needs and concerns of intersex people. We are particularly grateful of the long engagement and strong statements by Labor and the Greens on the need to end deferrable surgeries on infants and children born with variations of sex characteristics where these take…

Intersex people in sport

We welcome UN Human Rights Council resolution on sport

…and Sport’. January 16. https://ihra.org.au/sport/ Karkazis, Katrina, and Morgan Carpenter. 2018. ‘Impossible “Choices”: The Inherent Harms of Regulating Women’s Testosterone in Sport’. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, August. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9876-3 United Nations Human Rights Council. 2019. ‘Elimination of Discrimination against Women and Girls in Sport’. A/HRC/40/L.10/Rev.1. The final version is available on the OHCHR website (…

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Submission to the Law Reform Commission of WA

…rete recommendations on these matters. On this occasion, IHRA has endorsed a submission by Morgan Carpenter to the inquiry. More information Submission by Morgan Carpenter to the Law Reform Commission of WA More information on the inquiry…

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Appropriating ‘DSD’ as a way for trans people to access surgery

…man Rights Australia. May 8. http://ihra.org.au/26808/tony-briffa-on-dsd/. Carpenter, Morgan. 2018. ‘The “Normalisation” of Intersex Bodies and “Othering” of Intersex Identities’. In The Legal Status of Intersex Persons, edited by Jens Scherpe, Anatol Dutta, and Tobias Helms, 445–514. Cambridge, England: Intersentia. doi:10.1017/9781780687704.028. Costello, Cary Gabriel. 2016. ‘Intersex and Trans* Communities: Commonalities and Tensions’. In Trans…

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UN Human Rights Committee calls for recognition of right to bodily integrity

…able to participate in the hearings of the Committee in Geneva in October, Morgan Carpenter was fortunate to be able to meet individuals with roles on the Committee during September this year. We thank the Committee for their consideration of our report and for these very helpful (and necessary) recommendations. We also thank our friends in People with Disabilities Australia for their engagement with the Committee on our behalf, and the Human Righ…