…eeches on intersex health and human rights take place in the Senate 2015 – Morgan Carpenter participates in the first UN expert meeting on ending human rights violations against intersex people, in Geneva 2016 – the Family Court adjudicates ‘Re: Carla (Medical procedure)’ – the judge describes prior surgeries (without court authorisation) on this preschool child with 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency, described as a ‘sexual development…
…IHRA, IPSA and AGA in 2018. A formal contract from the ACT government for Morgan Carpenter to investigate the published literature regarding key issues in Australia. The 2021 Australian Human Rights Commission inquiry and report on ensuring the health and human rights of people born with variations of sex characteristics. Collaboration with medical and health organisations on policy and position statement development; collaboration in the elabora…
…ividual cases. Guidelines, advisory committees and community participation Morgan Carpenter, President of OII Australia, says: We welcome legal scrutiny that is guided by human rights based frameworks and guidelines, protecting both the rights of the child and the future adult. It is essential that future court involvement be shaped by human rights considerations, informed by national guidelines, with the participation of the child, family, and su…
…tion Intersex International Australia, Eve Black, Kylie Bond, Tony Briffa, Morgan Carpenter, et al. 2017. ‘Darlington Statement’. https://darlington.org.au/statement. Briffa, Tony. 2004. ‘Intersex Surgery Disregards Children’s Human Rights’. Nature 428 (6984): 695. doi:10.1038/428695a. Carpenter, Morgan. 2018. ‘The “Normalisation” of Intersex Bodies and “Othering” of Intersex Identities’. In The Legal Status of Intersex Persons, edited by Jens Sch…
…Intersex and DSD in Australian Data’. University of Huddersfield. https://morgancarpenter.com/intersex-dsd-australian-data/. Deutsch, Madeline B, Jamison Green, JoAnne Keatley, Gal Mayer, Jennifer Hastings, Alexandra M Hall, Madeline B Deutsch, et al. 2013. ‘Electronic Medical Records and the Transgender Patient: Recommendations from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health EMR Working Group’. Journal of the American Medical Info…
…zation of LGBT People in the United States. Queer Action/Queer Ideas. Boston: Beacon Press. Reis, Elizabeth. 2012. Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Some of these themes were the subject of a presentation by Morgan Carpenter to TheMHS Conference in Perth in August 2014. Give feedback on this page Was this page helpful? Click on a star to give a rating Submit rating We are sorry that this p…
…ors?, an article in the December 2018 issue of the RANZCOG O&G Magazine by Morgan Carpenter We typically describe forced, involuntary, unnecessary and non-consensual gonadal and cosmetic genital surgeries on infants, children and adolescents as just that. We occasionally also use the term “Genital Mutilation”, as it corresponds to the widely used term “Female Genital Mutilation”, but we generally try to refrain from the use of triggering language….
…t to be able to make fully informed decisions about their own healthcare.” Morgan Carpenter, Tony Briffa and Anna Brown were all members of the expert reference group for this inquiry by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Morgan Carpenter is a signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10. For media inquiries, contact Matthew Phillips on 0408 541 717 or media@equalityaustralia.org.au or Morgan Carpenter on 0418 356 131 or morgan.carpenter@ih…
…April 2015. Tony speaks nationally and internationally on intersex issues. Morgan Carpenter Morgan Carpenter was elected to the role of president in 2013. Morgan migrated permanently to Australia in 2005. A founding director of OII Australia, Morgan was diagnosed late, with a complex surgical history. Morgan wrote our submissions to Senate Inquiries on anti-discrimination legislation, and involuntary or coerced sterilisation, and also participated…
…population. These illustrate a contradiction discussed in a book chapter (Carpenter 2018a) and peer-reviewed article (Carpenter 2018b), that different language is associated with radically different values, beliefs and ideas about the nature of the subject population. In particular, people with intersex variations are simultaneously depicted as disordered female and males, and in need of “fixing”, while at the same time are depicted as an other s…
…September 2014. Organisation Intersex International Australia (July 2014) Morgan Carpenter at LGBTI Human Rights in the Commonwealth conference, https://oii.org.au/27467/lgbti-human-rights-in-the-commonwealth/ accessed 16 September 2014. The text was reviewed by the board of OII Australia, and also by Mauro Cabral and Dan Christian Ghattas. The final text is the responsibility of Morgan Carpenter. Side event: “The time has come” Morgan Carpenter…
…sex Rights and Freedoms.” Court Of Conscience, no. 9 (2015): 27–33. http://morgancarpenter.com/intersex-rights-freedoms/ [4] See for example Martínez-Patiño, Maria José. “Personal Account A Woman Tried and Tested.” The Lancet, December 2005, 366–538; Carpenter, Morgan, and Organisation Intersex International Australia. “Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Rights Snapshot Report.” S…
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