…s’ guide to intersex inclusion On launching the new resources in May 2014, Morgan Carpenter, the president of OII Australia and the organisation’s project lead for this work, said: We are delighted to welcome these beautiful and timely resources to introduce intersex to people who are unfamiliar with intersex issues, and help build a deeper understanding for people who know the basics. We would like to thank ACON, and in particular Teddy Cook, Ann…
…y Ivory and developments in Aotearoa New Zealand by Dr Elizabeth Kerekere. Morgan Carpenter (co-executive director of IHRA) has written on the medical needs of intersex people, including: simple concerns with transparency, accountability and respect. Current medical practices give rise to serious concerns and they need to change to bring them into line with human rights norms that Australia is obliged to meet.20 Many of us lack trust in healthcare…
…or Lecturer, International Law; Asian Business Law, Monash University, and Morgan Carpenter, PhD candidate in bioethics, University of Sydney Disclosure statement: Aileen Kennedy Is a director on the board of Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA). Alice de Jonge is a director on the board of Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA). Morgan Carpenter is the executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia, a national charity which is funded by…
…ew York: Human Rights Watch. Hutson, John, Sonia Grover, Clare Delany, and Morgan Carpenter. 2020. ‘Intersexion: The Birth of Ambiguity’. Presented at the Melbourne Medical Student Conference 2020, University of Melbourne, June 23. https://ihra.org.au/36471/intersexion-mdscx-2020/. Liao, L.-M., Wood, D., & Creighton, S. M. (2015). Parental choice on normalising cosmetic genital surgery. BMJ, 351, h5124 Lloyd, J., Crouch, N. S., Minto, C. L., Liao,…
…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…
…ease contact: Bonnie Hart, President AISSGA Email: bonnie at aissga.org.au Morgan Carpenter, Co-Chairperson, OII Australia Email: morgan.carpenter at oii.org.au Imogen Yang, Co-founder, Bladder Exstrophy, Epispadias, Cloacal Exstrophy, Hypospadias, Australian Community Email: imogenyang at icloud.com https://twitter.com/sarah_mcv/status/838636799522021376 Press ABC’s TripleJ Hack covered the intersex float at Sydney Mardi Gras in a news report on…
…rsity to create a first Employers’ guide to intersex inclusion. Written by Morgan Carpenter and Dawn Hough, the guide is kindly sponsored by IBM. Download the Employers’ guide to intersex inclusion (PDF) More information on this resource UNISON working for intersex equality In 2016, the UK union UNISON published a guide to workplace issues for people born with intersex variations. Download UNISON working for intersex equality (PDF) VGLRL Guide for…
…tity” and “intersex status”, education and sport. OII Australia president, Morgan Carpenter, is quoted in the report: One of our key human rights issues is not really the existence of binary genders, but what is done medically to make us conform to those norms. Attending today’s launch, we heard Tim Wilson, the Human Rights Commissioner, describe bodily autonomy as a basic human right, and forced sterilisations of intersex people a fundamental bre…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
…Santow who began this project and President Ros Croucher who concluded it. Morgan Carpenter, Tony Briffa and Aileen Kennedy were glad to participate in the expert reference group. The recommendations for legislative and regulatory reform of medicine, and for community-based research, need to be implemented by States, Territories and the Commonwealth. We want to thank the ACT and Victorian governments for their engagement with us over many years to…
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