Screenshot of news report in Arizona Daily Star online edition - click to read the original news item.
The reasons for OII Australia’s sensitivity to photographic depictions of intersex individuals is exemplified in this article. If those responsible had not been caught there is every likelihood the subject of this abuse may have ended up on YouTube.com or a similar video sharing network.
There is plenty of voyeuristic fascination for these kinds of images.
On the other side of the lens is an intersex person going about their life as best they can. The humiliation and shame for this person is difficult, for many people, to imagine.
For intersex people, this kind of exposure is a constant risk and the subsequent humiliation is not confined to the individual in question – it is shared by all intersex.
This kind of exposure reiterates societal views of intersex people’s difference being worthy of ridicule, exposure, and degradation.
