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[Op/Ed] Neo-Eugenics and Its War Against Human Biological Diversity

17 August 2010

Author: Jo Proctor, board member, OII Australia NEO-EUGENICS or ‘new eugenics’ is the term given to modern medicine’s rapidly evolving biotechnological ability to identify and terminate a raft of congenital variations at increasingly early stages of fetal development.

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Patient advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies

11 February 2010

Patient Advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies from Matthew Mikkelsen on Vimeo. Editorial comment: It continues to amaze us just how naive Alice Dreger, Bo Laurent aka Cheryl Chase and their associates in the late ISNA (Intersex Society of North America) appear to be.

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[Op/Ed] Having Betrayed Intersex through ISNA, Bo Laurent Vanishes from Its Successor, the Accord Alliance

22 January 2010

So the ISNA (Intersex Society of North America) trojan horse has done its work and the very last intersex member of successor organization, Accord Alliance (AA), has vanished from its ranks. Good-bye, Bo Laurent aka Cheryl Chase.

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CSI Miami Episode ‘Delko for the Defense’ Pathologizes Intersex

16 December 2009

OII member Sophia recently wrote ‘finally there is a degree of understanding that people who do not fit the classical biological definitions of what is male or female are not “dangerous” or “evil” or a “threat to society”’ in reference to the report in Cell on Somatic Sex Reprogramming of Adult Ovaries to Testes by [...]

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Andrea James on ISNA: ISNA’s legacy of shame and secrecy: The Sextard Movement

23 November 2009

We have noted, and been appalled by, the way the media keeps dragging the rotting corpse of ISNA – Intersex Society of North America – out when it writes stories to do with intersex, as if ISNA still exists, still has something useful to say or has any degree of authority to speak or act [...]

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A Major Turnabout & An Exhibition of Horror

21 September 2009

HOW, might you ask, does an organization that used to notoriously and famously picket medical conferences demanding that non-consensual experimental cosmetic surgery on intersex newborns be stopped immediately eject almost all its actual intersex members to then become an organization of, for and by doctors who conduct non-consensual experimental cosmetic surgery on intersex newborns? Well [...]

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Between XX and XY – Dreger Testifies

5 August 2009

HISTORIAN and ethicist Dr Alice Domurat Dreger co-founded the now defunct Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), which morphed into Accord Alliance after ISNA jettisoned its intersex members. Accord Alliance is an organisation of doctors and enthusiasts for non-consensual intersex surgery. It adopted a replacement term for intersex – Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) – [...]

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When DSD Originated

26 May 2009

ALICE Dreger, formerly of ISNA – the intersex society that then morphed into the doctors’ organisation Accord Alliance – has promoted the concept of Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) as coming from the ‘intersex grassroots,’ as being the newly-coined term that we must all now use instead of intersex. That was certainly news to the [...]

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An Intersex Mynifesto & Universal Declaration of Intersex Rights

5 April 2009

We have uploaded a revised version of the OII document An Intersex Mynifesto. It now includes The Universal Declaration of Intersex Rights, which was the subject of a previous post. Click the following link to download a copy as a PDF:

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Rights for Intersex

16 February 2009

Recently there has been a flurry of activity for human rights in Australia: The Human Rights Commissioner has finalized his report into same sex relationships and is in the process of finalizing his Sex & Gender Diversity report. The federal government has appointed four eminent persons to conduct community consultations on Human Rights issues and report [...]

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Media

8 January 2009

MEDIA refers to digital media of various types as well as to the media as an entity of communications, storytelling and commentary. To see any of our many media pages within this section, please refer to the above navigation dropdown menu and select the relevant item.

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