We thank Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC) for her intersex advocacy

9 March 2012

LEGAL advocate for intersex people Anne Tamar-Mattis of Advocates for Informed Choice – AIC has further contributed to  public education about  intersex people  in a recent, at-length and in-depth interview with San Francisco Bay Area radio station KPFA.  The program – now available as a downloadable MP3 file – was broadcast on the Against the Grain program on Monday, March 5, 2012. Remember [...]

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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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[Submission] OII Australia’s submission to the Australian Attorney-General’s National Human Rights Action Plan consultation

26 February 2012

Editorial note: The web version was updated on 20 March 2012 as previously it incorrectly showed a draft version of the plan. Submission on the National Human Rights Action Plan, Consultation Version Organisation Intersex International Australia Limited What is intersex? The term intersex was adopted by science in the early 20th century and applied to [...]

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Psychology Today: Jesse Prinz on “Why Are Men So Violent?”

21 February 2012

Jesse Prinz writes in Psychology Today on the subject of evolutionary biology. A historical explanation of male violence does not eschew biological factors, but it minimizes them and assumes that men and woman are psychologically similar. Consider the biological fact that men have more upper-body strength than women, and assume that both men and women [...]

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An annulment of marriage due to being intersex – In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C).

12 February 2012

A Brisbane Family Court case in 1979 annulled a marriage on the basis that an intersex person cannot be legally married because marriage can only be between someone who is seen to be 100% man and someone who is seen to be 100% woman. . We have sent this judgement document to one of our [...]

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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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Intersex intersectionalities with LGBTI

5 February 2012

MORGAN, OII Australia board member, wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne on 4 February 2012. The conference marked the fortieth anniversary of Dennis Altman’s book Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation. The 10-minute presentation was delivered as part of a curated panel on intersectionalities. Introduction I’d like to pay my respects [...]

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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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International news pages have migrated to The Intersex Network at OIIInternational.com

29 January 2012

WE are currently building a network of websites for Organisation Intersex International and its national affiliates, and much of the international content of this website has migrated there. OII’s The Intersex Network is located at oiiinternational.com. This site will continue to offer Australian news and views.

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After “Homosexual”: The Legacies of Gay Liberation

28 January 2012

AN international conference hosted and funded by the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity program at La Trobe University in conjunction with the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives, Midsumma, Victoria University and Australian Centre for the Moving Image is being held in Melbourne on 3rd and 4th February. In recognition of the fortieth anniversary of the publication [...]

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