Disorders of Sex Development

OII Australia’s response to Dr Alice Dreger’s article on passports, the X sex designation, intersex and trans in the Bioethics Forum

14 October 2011

DR Dreger misapprehends much in the decision by the Australian government to allow people of unspecified sex the right to have X on their passport. I take her points each in turn. Intersex, sex and gender Sex and gender are indeed conflated in this decision as they are in all of Australian legislation and much [...]

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Phoebe Hart’s intersex documentary Orchids gains more worldwide film festival screening dates

7 October 2011

INTERSEX documentary film Orchids: My Intersex Adventure directed by Queenslander Phoebe Hart continues to gain more bookings on the global film festival circuit. Congratulations, filmmakers Phoebe and Bonnie Hart!

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UK petition against surgery upon intersex infants aka intersex genital mutilation (IGM)

30 September 2011

AN e-petition against the globally-entrenched, widespread practice of intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka intersex assignment surgery amongst other euphemisms has been posted by Miss Anne Carter under the UK Government’s Directgov e-petitions scheme. Surgery on intersex infants and children is mutilation and in breach of the child’s human rights under UN Children’s Charter and puts [...]

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[Media Release] Arrogance, Hypocrisy & the new World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, version 7 (SOC v7)

29 September 2011

Thursday 29th September 2011 Re: The World Professional Association for Transgender Health: Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, 7th version, wpath.org In an act of breathtaking hypocrisy the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) has released pathologizing guidelines for the treatment of intersex children and adults who reject [...]

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Violence against children includes surgery on intersex newborns’ genitals without their consent

19 September 2011

OII Australia encourages all those who are interested in protecting the rights of children everywhere to live as themselves, especially intersex children, to respond to the United Nations’ Global Progress Survey on Violence against Children 2011.  The violence committed against intersex children is widespread and profound. It comes in many forms including: Cutting up the genitals [...]

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Protest at conference promoting Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) at The Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, 17 – 19 September 2011

10 September 2011

INTERSEX people and organizations including Organisation Intersex International (OII) call on intersex activists and friends to protest outside the Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, Saturday 17th to Monday 19th September 2011.  The College is the venue for the IV World Congress on Hypospadias and Disorders of Sex Development which promotes [...]

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Double-edged sword – BBC one throws light on intersex people while insulting and medically pathologizing us

10 September 2011

LOOKS like the BBC needs educating about intersex and how not to medically pathologize and insult people with common biological variations such as intersex. “DSDs (Disorders of Sexual Development)”? We think not. The insulting, pathologizing language of DSD plays right into the hands of those who would disappear intersex people by cutting up our genitals [...]

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Intersex – the last great worldwide struggle for fundamental human rights

8 September 2011

MEDIA RELEASE 5 September 2011 Brussels, Belgium FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL INTERSEX FORUM The world’s 1st International Intersex Organising Forum took place in Brussels between 3-5 September 2011. The historic event brought together 24 activists representing 17 intersex organisations from all continents. Around the world intersex individuals are being subjected to inhumane and degrading altering surgical [...]

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Intersex documentary ‘Intersexion’ is available on YouTube.com

18 July 2011

LONG-AWAITED documentary about the experiences of a number of intersex people around the world, Intersexion (Is He Or Isn’t She?), is now available online at YouTube.com and we have embedded the videos in this news item for your convenience. The film was made for New Zealand television broadcaster TV One by Grant Lahood with the [...]

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“Leave intersex out of the DSM-V” but still make intersex diseased? With friends like this…

26 June 2011

IF intersex people have friends like this then we don’t need enemies! Anne Tamar-Mattis writes in support of leaving intersex out of psychiatrists’ bible the DSM-V – the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. However, she is clearly a keen supporter of the medical pathologization of intersex as a physical disorder or [...]

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Intersex people in Germany, the experts and the Deutscher Ethikrat public consultation, Wednesday 8th June

5 June 2011

INTERSEX people in Germany have been invited to participate and observe proceedings in an historic public consultation and dialog “on the situation of people with intersexuality [sic] in Germany”. The event has been organized by Deutscher Ethikrat - The German Ethics Council – and its participants include ‘experts’ in intersex, medical people, lawyers, parents of intersex [...]

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Philadelphia trans-health conference includes at least two notable intersex presenters

22 May 2011

WE are a little mystified at the inclusion of intersex at a “trans-health” conference given that intersex is not somehow transgender nor a subset of transgender or any other kind of trans. Perhaps the conference should be renamed as a trans and intersex event. But it is encouraging to note that two remarkable intersex presenters [...]

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