Media Reports

NZ Herald: Mani Mitchell on being intersex

26 April 2012

In anticipation of the first showing of a full documentary version of Intersexion, Mani Mitchell has been interviewed by the New Zealand Herald. It’s a great piece, which shows Mani’s humanity as well as Mani’s own perspective on surgery, one that is shared by very many intersex people: She remembers being eight-years-old and going in [...]

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The Project interviews Tony Briffa and Bonnie Hart

14 March 2012

LAST night Australian news and current affairs infotainment television show The Project reported on intersex. Two intersex Australians were interviewed and a doctor was asked to give his views on delaying cosmetic genital surgery and hormone treatment beyond the time of birth until the child can consent to such treatment. The show’s reporters appear to be somewhat confused about intersex, [...]

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7 March 2012 was an historic day for LGBT people at the United Nations Human Rights Council – we seek full and equal intersex inclusion

13 March 2012

ON Wednesday March 7, 2012 the United Nations Human Rights Council held a discussion titled Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity. Here we look at discussion around intersex at the event. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opens the panel discussion UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon did not discuss intersex, he utilised the formula “sexual orientation and gender identity” [...]

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Interview with OII Australia board member Morgan on intersex intersectionalities now available for download

26 February 2012

MORGAN, board member of Organisation Intersex International Australia Limited – OII Australia – was recently interviewed by JOY 94.9 radio program Take Care {on} Air on the subject of intersex intersectionalities with other aspects of LGBTQI. The podcast MP3 audio file has become available to download and listen to.  Internal link: The Intersex Network – Intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI Download the [...]

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Intersex Hobsons Bay Mayor Tony Briffa interviewed by Word for Word on Joy 94.9 radio

7 February 2012
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Creating a third gender creates a whole new set of problems

4 February 2012

A number of erstwhile allies of intersex people have supposed that intersex people want the legislative creation of a third gender or a third sex. Sex – male and female under the sex binary belief system, and gender – man and woman under the gender binary belief system, are two very different though related things. The reality [...]

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Lydia Guterman, Open Society Foundations: “Why Are Doctors Still Performing Genital Surgery on Infants”

1 February 2012

OVER at the Open Society Foundations Lydia Guterman asks the question “Why Are Doctors Still Performing Genital Surgery on Infants?” The answer is simple – so long as journalists, doctors, commentators, bioethicists, parents, erstwhile allies and intersex people ourselves believe that intersex is a “disorder”, a DSD then doctors will continue to try to fix [...]

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Paul Martin at QNews.com.au: intersex people are neglected

31 January 2012

PSYCHOLOGIST Paul Martin has written a short article about the widespread neglect of intersex: Our communities rarely talk about or even understand intersex which is a part of our ‘LGBTI’, so it may as well stand for ‘invisible’. There are more intersex people out there than you think -the statistics show that almost 2% of [...]

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Marriage made easier for all LGBTI couples including intersex Australians

27 January 2012

AS usual the Australian mainstream media screws up on reporting the issue of marriage equality, once again mislabelling it “same-sex marriage” and “gay marriage” but at least the news itself is good – new federal Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is about to end the ban on CNI – Certificates of No Impediment – for LGBTI Australians wishing to [...]

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New Idea Mag: Intersex is “Shocking Discovery”, in one-pager on Phoebe Hart

25 January 2012

INTERSEX documentary filmmaker Phoebe Hart appears in an article in popular Australian women’s magazine New Idea this week. The report ends by mentioning that she appears in Orchids: My Intersex Adventure this Sunday but not that she is the director. Other inaccuracies are scattered throughout the article. Some notes for journalists reporting on intersex: Even though some [...]

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New San Francisco Bay Area intersex digital magazine is calling for submissions

24 January 2012

A collective of intersex, genderqueer and trans people of colour – POC – in the Oakland and Berkeley area of northern California is calling for submissions from intersex people for a new digital ‘zine named sex: unknown. The submissions deadline is April 1, 2012. As intersex people, we often feel alienated from queer and trans [...]

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A Melbournian writes on some LGBTQI organizations’ tendency to substitute an inclusive shorthand for a much less inclusive one

22 January 2012

A Melbourne-based blogger named bluebec writes about problems she has observed with some apparent LGBTQI organizations that use “gay and lesbian” as shorthand for LGBTQI, as if the acronym was not already shorthand enough as well as honest and inclusive. We have observed a similar tendency ourselves. Gay and Lesbian do not equal LGBTIQ. Gay [...]

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