AIS

Intersex woman Sarah Graham writes a Letter to My Body for BBC Radio 3

16 December 2011

SARAH Graham is a therapist and counsellor in the UK who was born with the intersex variation Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). AIS, along with CAH and XXY is one of the most common biological variations underlying intersex. She and her family were lied to by doctors from the age of eight until she learned the [...]

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Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) – apparently it all ended forever in 1992

29 November 2011

WE have been encountering a minor but persistent belief that intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka nonconsensual surgery on intersex newborns aka “cosmetic genital surgery” ended once and for all twenty years ago. That would mean the mythical end of the experimental surgery best known as IGM occurred sometime in 1992. Propagators of this myth seem to [...]

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Intersex people with AIS found to be dissatisfied with results of non-consensual genital surgery done upon them as newborns and infants

22 November 2011

IT comes as no surprise to intersex people ourselves that many if not most, perhaps all, intersex people subjected to intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka intersex genital surgery, aka non-consensual sex assignment of intersex newborns, are dissatisfied to varying degrees with the results of that surgery – surgery which remains a standard treatment for intersex infants.  [...]

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Please donate so Phoebe Hart can take intersex film Orchids to the USA

19 June 2011

OII Australia supports Phoebe Hart’s effort to raise the funds to take her and her film Orchids: My Intersex Adventure to film festivals in Los Angeles and New York and we ask that you do too, with a hefty donation. We are constantly reminded that intersex people are excluded from equality, human rights and anti-discrimination [...]

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Dr Cary Costello continues educating us into the nature of intersex variations

30 April 2011

DR Cary Gabriel Costello’s always excellent The Intersex Roadshow is continuing the cause of education in intersex variations with its latest article, Intersex Genitalia Illustrated and Explained. He writes: I want to help lift the veil of medically-enforced secrecy that makes our bodies We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge [...]

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Nikki Araguz, on trial for being born intersex

24 April 2011

IN Texas, Nikki Araguz, an intersex woman, born in California, owning a California-issued birth certificate stating she is female, married in Texas to a fireman tragically killed in the line of duty, is fighting to be recognized as the legitimate wife of her husband and to receive benefits as his widow. In the process she [...]

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Conversations with Richard Fidler: Phoebe Hart

9 November 2010

DOCUMENTARY filmmaker Phoebe Hart has a condition called AIS – Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome; a woman with male chromosomes, which means she’s part male and part female. When her mother finally revealed the full truth about her condition Phoebe was intially shocked, but then relieved to have an explanation for why she was different to her [...]

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brisbanetimes.com.au: Coming to grips with an intersex adventure

3 November 2010

WHEN someone, somewhere said Lady Gaga was a hermaphrodite, the world went wild. Curiosity mingled with disbelief, offended outrage countered by jubilant relief, it wasn’t long before the speculation overtook the pursuit of the ‘truth’. But for Brisbane filmmaker Phoebe Hart, the maelstrom helped her have the kind of conversations with friends and family that [...]

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Orchids, my intersex adventure, by Phoebe Hart

26 October 2010

DOCUMENTARY filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to embrace her future and reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition. Despite her mother’s outright refusal to be in the film, Phoebe decides she must push on with her quest to resolve her life story and connect with other [...]

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ABC News: Transgender Woman on Feeling Different

24 October 2010

BORN Justin, Nikki Araguz recalls early interest in feminine toys, activities. Editorial comment: HOUSTONIAN woman of transsexual background Cristan Williams has pointed out in a comment at this website that Houston is unique in how that city is the only one where intersex is included under the transgender banner and where intersex people are instrumental [...]

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indieWIRE: In the Works: IFP Edition | 4 New Projects from Indie Film Week – “Ain’t I a Woman”

4 October 2010

Synopsis: ONE in 750 babies are born with a Disorder of Sex Development. In the past, these people were labeled “hermaphrodites,” and captivated the curiosity of the medical establishment. At age 16, filmmaker Robin Honan was diagnosed with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) called Swyer Syndrome – which means she is a woman with [...]

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the trial of Nikki Araguz: Nikki Araguz and an Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Diagnosis

11 September 2010

ALTHOUGH many newspaper accounts have all but completely ignored the fact that Nikki Araguz was likely born with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS), whether or not she was born with this genetic intersex condition could become an important, even essential, aspect of her defensive response to the probate lawsuit filed against her by Heather Delgado, her [...]

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