A British television crew has arrived in South Africa to film a documentary on the life of 800m world champion Caster Semenya.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has the opportunity to record the life of Semenya after an agreement with the athlete’s lawyers.
Sowetan was informed at the weekend that the BBC paid Semenya’s lawyers “a substantial amount of money”. …
Sowetan: BBC to film Semenya.
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Chris Somers xxy is a national and international intersex activist with a M.Ed. By Research (UWA); concerning Androgyny; B.Ed. (Melb); Hons Dip Creative Photography (Trent Polytechnic now Trent University, UK); who has worked in a number of life fields inclusive of Education and the Visual Arts both within the public and private sectors, as Photographic Illustrator-Artist, Photo-Journalist to national and international publishing houses and for a while as a Medical Photographer in a tertiary hospital.
Chris Somers xxy, Tracy Reibel and David Whyatt: Intersex and Androgyny and Implications for Provision of Primary Health Care - Click to download this report from its original location.
Has worked as relief teacher in Primary, Technical and High Schools and Prison settings; was a fulltime Instructor and Lecturer of Professional Photography on courses within colleges and University for nine years. A number of his/her art works are held in both private collections and public institutions in Australia and overseas; inclusive of the Federal Parliament of Australia.
In 1990 was presented with a prestigious award for services to international education concerning Antarctica from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Government of Saudi Arabia and the King Abdulaziz University. Somers xxy, C is undertaking preliminary studies towards a PhD concerning Intersex and Androgyny at The University of South Australia, through The Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health in Geraldton Western Australia, where s/he won a fellowship and is a guest researcher.
Chris is on the Board of the Organisation Intersex International arguably the world’s most prestigious and eminent Intersex www site. Further Somers xxy, C. is intent on advocating for meaningful research across the board of human endeavour for those born intersex and or androgynous, where they no longer live in fear of their differences and are accepted into the community. …
OII Australia – Sexing the Difference in Gender and the Anomalies of Interpretation
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This documentary traces the life of intersex activist Mani Mitchell. ‘Intersexual’ is a term to describe a person with atypical combinations of biological features that usually distinguish males from females. …
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A National Police Certificate check is increasingly required by potential employers of all kinds before Australians will be considered for employment.
This has left many intersex people living in fear of discovery and rejection, especially those of us who were assigned one sex at birth but who are in fact the other sex, both sexes or neither sex and who have gone on to live as our true selves.
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For many in the GLBT community, being ‘out’ at work conjures up fears of being harassed or penalised by their managers, colleagues or both. However, a ground-breaking program is set to help Australian workplaces become a lot more accepting and inclusive. …
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It is now almost two years since the voters of the US state of California passed Proposition 8, the bill that banned the equal right to marriage for everyone there.
Banning marriage equality so soon after it had been granted meant that the legal unions of thousands of Americans were immediately placed in jeopardy.
Equality was instantly replaced with inequality and hope with despair, whose hideous face is all too familiar to the persecuted of this world.
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