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[Opinion] Jo Proctor: 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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Video: Patient advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies

11 February 2010

Janet Green, a woman born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) voices concern about high risk in utero steroid treatment being given to pregnant women, possibly without proper informed consent and/or oversight. Patient Advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies from Matthew Mikkelsen on Vimeo. External links: Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC): [...]

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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: “ISNA’s legacy of shame and secrecy: The Sextard Movement”

23 November 2009

ISNA, once an anti-medical establishment intersex human rights organisation, morphed into Accord Alliance, a medical organization that promotes non-consensual cosmetic surgery on the genitals of intersex infants. Andrea James is an observant writer on matters of human rights and has closely watched these events, and the founders of both organisations.

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Gerald N. Callahan’s book, “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 later morphed into the Accord Alliance. Accord Alliance is an organisation of doctors and parents that promote non-consensual intersex infant genital surgery. It adopted a replacement term for intersex – Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) – that [...]

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When DSD Originated

26 May 2009

ALICE Dreger, formerly of ISNA – the intersex society that morphed into the 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 actual intersex grassroots, which [...]

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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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