AIS

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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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism: People with AIS dissatisfied with results of non-consensual infant genital surgery

22 November 2011

A team of medical researchers reports that intersex people subjected to intersex genital surgery as infants are dissatisfied with the results of that surgery – surgery which remains a standard treatment for intersex infants.  In a world first, the team consulted intersex people with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) on their surgery outcomes. The numbers are revealing: Dissatisfaction with [...]

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Cary Costello on the nature of intersex genital 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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Conversations with Richard Fidler: Phoebe Hart

9 November 2010

ABC interview: 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 [...]

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Brisbane Times: “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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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 Star: “Complaints against Caster Semenya ‘total sour grapes’”

25 August 2010

A transgender Toronto cyclist who helped South African runner Caster Semenya get reinstated lashed out Monday at complaints against her return — including a remark by Canadian Diane Cummins that it was like “running against a man.” Kristen Worley, who attempted to become the first transgender Olympian at the 2008 Beijing Games, was responding to [...]

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Marie Claire: “I’m a Woman with Male Chromosomes”

12 August 2010

THE year I was in fifth grade, I saw a television commercial for tampons. Like most 10-year-olds, I’d never heard of a tampon. But when I asked my mom what one was, she started crying. How do you tell your daughter that she’s never going to need tampons? That she won’t get her period or [...]

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The Age on Tony Briffa, “Voices of the ‘other’ that need to be heard”

10 July 2010

HOBSONS Bay deputy mayor Tony Briffa is thought to be the only person to describe his sex as “other” in the Victorian Local Governance Association survey of the numbers of males and females in local government. The Altona ward councillor was born with an intersex condition, which caused him to be incorrectly assigned as female [...]

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Gina Wilson: Sexism is the Issue with the IOC

5 March 2010

THE issue with the IOC – International Olympic Committee – is sexism and every woman should be outraged. Why? Physical advantage Every gold medallist since the beginning of the modern Olympics, and most likely those in the old Olympics has a physical advantage over his competitors. The underlying prejudice in the current situation is that [...]

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Eden Atwood: “The Opposite of Secret”

18 February 2010

The truth unfolded, at least in my memory, like this. The doctor came in and nervously took a seat. He informed me and my mother that we were both scheduled to see a psychologist that day, separately and together. And then he proceeded to use terms like Muellerian Duct Regression Factor and Chromosomal Abnormality. The [...]

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