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From Pakistan to the USA and the International Olympics Committee, Intersex People are Treated as Less or Other than Human

11 March 2010

Author:
Bhakti Ananda Goswami, board member, OII
“Some sociologists and legal experts have suggested that eligibility for new ID cards or other benefits might require a physical exam and test to see how claimants urinate.”
This ’suggestion’ by “sociologists and legal experts” is appalling in its anti-scientific ignorance. Objective scientists and biologists know that human beings cannot be [...] Read more »

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Los Angeles Times: A small victory for Pakistan’s transgenders

11 March 2010

The nation’s hijra community – mostly eunuchs and hermaphrodites – has long lived on the margins in the Muslim nation, barely tolerated and more often abused. A new ruling gives its members some rights. …
The court decision to bolster transgender rights, however, has raised questions of what it means to be a hijra. The term [...] Read more »

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denverpost.com: Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

8 March 2010

The World Health Organization estimates that 100 million to 140 million women worldwide, but especially in northern and central Africa, have endured female genital mutilation, or FGM.
Usually done to girls before age 15, the practice involves at least slicing off part or all of the exposed clitoris. In some cultures, the cutting is more extensive, [...] Read more »

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Sydney International Women’s Day March, Saturday 6th March

6 March 2010
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Tufts Daily: Elisha Sum | Our Genderation – Not my daughter, you…

2 March 2010

Though hard to believe, genital mutilation has been happening in the United States for quite some time. Of course, the prominent discourse has not framed the repeated medical procedures as such, in part due to ignorance and to avoid the acknowledgment of the infringement of human rights. Read more »

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Dr Maria New directed the recent DSD conference in Florida

23 February 2010

Dr Maria New, who has been experimenting on unborn 46, XX CAH babies with the dangerous drug dexamethasone aka dex, was one of two course directors of the 2nd World Conference, Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation Disorders and Hot Topics in Endocrinology.
This conference was the one where doctors made their pronouncement that the [...] Read more »

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OII’s Position Statement on the Use of Dexamethasone during Pregnancy

18 February 2010

Online at:
http://www.intersexualite.org/dex.html
We, the board members of the Organisation Intersex International, wish to express our support of Drs. Feder, Dreger and Lindemann, for their vigilance and efforts to ensure the safety of intersex infants and their mothers who are currently being prescribed dexamethasone.
We share their concerns about this experimental use of dexamethasone currently underway in the [...] Read more »

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BBC News: Gender testing in sport: A case for treatment?

16 February 2010

“At the elite level, athletes who have unique abilities tend to possess physical characteristics that are advantageous in their particular sport. For example, being tall in basketball and petite-size with delayed sexual development in gymnastics, these athletes tend to be very successful,” says Professor Myron Genel, a paediatrician and specialist in Disorders of Sex Development [...] Read more »

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ABC News: Female circumcision happening in Australia

16 February 2010

“We bring imams or priests to convince them that there is nothing from both books that says you have to do circumcision to girls. So why are you doing it?”
Ms Mohamud is optimistic the practice will end, but she fears migrant communities or individual women will be demonised. Read more »

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The Suicide Rate for Intersex Youth is 30%

10 February 2010

Editorial comment:
Oswald’s song Flying to the Ground has touched us deeply.
The suicide rate for intersex children and adolescents is reportedly 30%.
Oh that shooting pain, as my spine begins to crack. Read more »

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Socialist Alliance: Policy on Intersex people

26 January 2010

Adopted at Socialist Alliance’s 7th National Conference, January 2010:
Intersex people are people born with physiological differences that may be seen as being both male and female at once, not wholly male or female or as neither male nor female.
Intersex people are subjected to discrimination in employment, in housing, in the provision of [...] Read more »

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Newser: AP Exclusive: IOC recommends setting up medical centers to handle gender cases

21 January 2010

Among the key conclusions was a proposal to set up health centers where experts would diagnose and treat athletes with what are known as “disorders of sex development.” Most cases, Ljungqvist said, require treatment such as surgery or hormone therapy. Read more »

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