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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 [...] Read more »

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GLAAD Comes Out Against CSI:Miami Portraying Intersex as Insane Sex Murderers

11 January 2010

Jo of OII-NZ has drawn our attention to a post at the GLAAD – Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – blog website. Read more »

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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 [...] Read more »

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Doctors Remove the Gonads of All Intersex Females with A.I.S…. Because…

15 October 2009

Editorial Comment:
From the American National Cancer Institute:
The National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health, estimates that, based on current rates, 12.7 percent of women born today will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some time in their lives.

In AIS women the risk of gonadal cancer is less than 9%… see Karkarzis, [...] Read more »

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Unattainable Body Shapes

29 September 2009

The fashion industry worldwide is obsessed with its idea of the perfect female body shape, to the detriment of women the world over. The media feeds this obsession and promotes it as the norm. If we aren’t born with it, we are exhorted to do whatever it takes to obtain it. Even unto death.
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Treated Like a Circus Sideshow…

17 September 2009

Janet in the UK was “treated like a circus sideshow.” That is something so many intersex people know so well. Our hearts go out to you, dear one. You are beloved to us here at OII Australia.
… I have been unemployed for a couple of years. My mother and I have yet again [...] Read more »

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Cate Blanchett to Play Wallis Simpson?

7 September 2009

On the unlikely (given its original source) but possible spike at the OII Australia newsroom goes this report via the Sydney Morning Herald that Madonna is attempting to persuade Cate Blanchett to take up the lead role in an upcoming musical bioflick about Wallis Simpson aka the Duchess of Windsor.
Wallis Simpson has long been [...] Read more »

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Intersex is the Female Ideal

28 August 2009
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Submission: Federal Department of Health & Ageing’s New National Women’s Health Policy

19 June 2009

19 June, 2009
The Hon Nicola Roxon
Minister for Health and Ageing
Organisation Intersex International Australia’s response to the Department of Health and Ageing discussion paper on a New National Woman’s Health Policy.

Organisation intersex International (OII) is the world’s largest intersex organisation. It is the only intersex organisation that is made up of, predominantly, intersex individuals with [...] Read more »

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Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Submission to the National Human Rights Consultation

15 June 2009

15 June 2009
Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Submission to the Australian Human Rights Consultation
Organisation intersex International (OII) is the world’s largest intersex organisation. It is the only intersex organisation that is made up of, predominantly, intersex individuals with 98% of our membership identifying as intersex.
Organisation Intersex International Australia is the Australian arm of OII.
OII has members [...] Read more »

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Science and Sexuality, by Dr Veronica Drantz

10 June 2009

Biologist and physiologist Veronica Drantz PhD has produced an excellent PowerPoint presentation titled Science and Sexuality: The Biology of Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Intersexuality.
We recommend it, although we are uncomfortable with the clinical images it contains of intersex people.
OII Australia does not generally approve of photographs of intersex individuals.
We are especially uncomfortable with photographs taken [...] Read more »

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Op/Ed: Living in the Specimen Jar

10 June 2009
Living in the Specimen Jar

We have come across a paper archived at the European Journal of Endocrinology that is titled Quality of life in 70 women with disorders of sex development, resulting from a study by the Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen. The paper is a reminder of how intersex people are regarded by the medical profession in general, [...] Read more »

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