…e! On Intersex Awareness Day, 26 October, Cody Smith (A Gender Agenda) and Steph Lum (OII Australia) will speak at an event at Canberra Museum and Gallery Theatrette. Australian Parliamentary Friendship Group breakfast OII Australia and the AIS Support Group Australia are holding a breakfast and panel at Australia’s federal Parliament House in Canberra on 19 October. Melbourne ANZ Bank Pride Network movie night Screening of Orchids: My Intersex Ad…
…nds, France and Germany. It’s time for Australia to join the 21st century. Steph Lum, chair of OII Australia, states: We continue to support the right of all consenting adults to marry, regardless of their sex characteristics and regardless of their legal sex classification. While we recognise that the issue of marriage equality directly affects only some members of our community, we stand in solidarity with those who it does affect, both intersex…
…Klinefelter syndrome, Mayer-Rokitansky, and Swyer syndrome. IHRA co-chair Steph Lum speaks at the Women Deliver 2019 conference Assumptions and disclosure Inclusion on intake and other forms Read more on inclusive practice It is important not to make assumptions about the identity, sex assignment, sex characteristics, gender, or terminology preferred by intersex staff. Similar to other stigmatised populations, some intersex workers will have an i…
…be taken to acknowledge this when talking about intersex people. Co-chair Steph Lum gave a short Power Talk at the Women Deliver conference 2019 Describing intersex We favour the terms intersex, intersex people, intersex variation, intersex trait. These recognise intersex variations as naturally occurring biological phenomena. The phrase “people with intersex variations” is useful as it recognises the diversity of intersex people. At least 40 dif…
…resource for people wanting to learn more about us. Quote attributable to Steph Lum, chair: Intersex visibility is so important to help create a world free of stigma and shame and for all of us to be empowered to make free and informed choices over our own bodies and lives. This Intersex Awareness Day, help increase that visibility by sharing our stories and the issues that we face. Quote attributable to Morgan Carpenter, co-executive director: T…
…nquiry, 2018 → Read a speech to Canberra Think Tank on LGBTIQ Inclusion by Steph Lum, 2017 Read Alex David’s article published by SBS, November 2017 → Watch Morgan Carpenter speaking at an AHRC RightsTalk, February 2017 Read Tony Briffa’s speech at the Darwin Outgames Human Rights Forum, May 2014 Read Intersex surgery disregards children’s human rights, Tony Briffa’s letter to Nature, 2004 → We continually engage in evidence-building, including th…
…out joining the session. The workshops will be led by Morgan Carpenter and Steph Lum. The events will take place via Zoom and be recorded for the purposes of transcribing for internal use only. Neither recording will be published or shared online after the event. Can’t get to a workshop? Let us know your views via this survey: English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SydneyWorldPrideHRC Español: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SWPHRC-Spanish Françai…
…e thank you to all the participants on the panel. Moderator – Dr Aileen Kennedy – IHRA Chair Morgan Carpenter – Executive Director IHRA Bonnie Hart – Deputy Executive Director IHRA Steph Lum – YOUth & I Producer Georgia Andrews – YOUth & I Editor Jelly O’ Shea – Communications and Community Manager Intersex Aotearoa…
…ou because we love you. This is better than what has come before. Cody and Steph Lum were named by the Chief Minister in his introductory speech as local champions for change in Canberra. Mimi Hall, Intersex project coordinator at A Gender Agenda, resident of Canberra living and working on Ngunnawal land. Today is a complicated day. How amazing it is to have legislation to protect the intersex children of the future. How sad it is that I did not h…
…irst issue of YOUth & I intersex youth publication is published, edited by Steph Lum 2021 – the Australian Bureau of Statistics issues a new 2020 Standard for Sex, Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics and Sexual Orientation Variables – this Standard resolves problems with the 2013 guidelines and provides a best practice model for data collection; it is not used in the national census in 2021 2021 – the Australian Medical Association calls on…
…ality Australia and Relationships Australia, to independent activists like Stephanie Lum and people who prefer to remain anonymous, it’s taken an immense and consistent community effort to bring these laws into fruition. Over the next few weeks we’d like to publish some more information addressing questions about the legislation as well as misinformation that has popped up in response. If there is something that you would like to see addressed, fe…
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