CAIS

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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Spanish newspaper El País writes in appreciation of Australian model Andrej Pejic

10 October 2011

SIGH! When will the mainstream media cease gibbering about “exotic aliens” and a “third sex” when it comes to people like Serbian-Australian model Andrej Pejic or intersex or trans people? Probably never as it seems to create fake controversies and sell newspapers especially in times of flagging sales like this. Enough already with aliens, third [...]

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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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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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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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Six key issues for intersex health

17 February 2010

Issue 1: An end to non-consensual infant genital surgery OII opposes all cosmetic (non-essential) surgery on infants without their full and informed participation in decision-making and their agreement. OII Australia on “Tasmanian wisdom about intersex from Commissioner for Children Paul Mason” AHRC: Surgery on intersex infants and human rights British Medical Journal: “Managing intersex” There [...]

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GLAAD comes Out against CSI:Miami portraying intersex as psychopathic 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.

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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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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 [...]

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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. Young [...]

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