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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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Spanish newspaper El País writes in appreciation of Australian model Andrej Pejic, but falls for the fiction of a “third sex”

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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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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The Trial of Nikki Araguz: The Lawsuit Against Nikki Araguz Could Impact Many People in Texas

2 September 2010

AMONG the many topics left out of nearly every mainstream newspaper and television report about the lawsuit against Nikki Araguz, are the number of people in Texas and across the U.S. who have had genital reconstruction surgery, and who could potentially be affected by an unfavorable appeals court ruling, if the Delgado v. Araguz lawsuit [...]

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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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guardian.co.uk: Lea T and the loneliness of the fashion world’s first transsexual supermodel

2 August 2010

AT first sight, the only thing that is striking about Lea T is her beauty. With her full lips, strong jaw and dark tresses falling in cascades over her shoulders, she is the perfect high-fashion package: alluring, whippet-thin and with a face too distinctive to be considered merely pretty. No wonder, you might think, she [...]

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Click2Houston.com on msnbc.com: Fallen Firefighter’s Widow’s Parents Say She’s Woman

27 July 2010

THE parents of the widow whose gender has been called into question after her firefighter husband died spoke out Wednesday to set the record straight, KPRC Local 2 reported. “I am shocked that they have made these allegations. They knew how much Thomas (Araguz III) and Nikki (Araguz) loved each other,” said Nikki Araguz’s mother, [...]

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