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, Phoebe Hart!

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World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) pathologies intersex people in its 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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First ever international intersex forum, representing 17 organisations, agrees common platform

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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Video: Intersex documentary “Intersexion (Is He Or Isn’t She?)”

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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Anne Tamar-Mattis: “Leave Intersex Out of the DSM-V”

26 June 2011

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. Please note that OII Australia rejects language such as “disorders” and “DSD” as pathologising and harming to intersex people. Internal link: OII Australia - A Conspiracy of Deceit: Alice Dreger, ISNA, [...]

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TS-Si: “Molecule Found Key To Applying Crucial Sex Hormones”

8 December 2010

A hormone responsible for the onset of puberty can end up in the wrong part of the body if the nerve pathways responsible for its transport to the brain fail to develop properly. Scientists have tracked how nerve cells responsible for regulating sexual reproduction in mice find their way from their birth place in the [...]

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medpage TODAY: “Bad Signaling Blamed for ‘Intersex’ Disorder”

7 December 2010

A genetic switch in an unexpected pathway appears to hold the key to hardwiring gender either to the specifications of the chromosomes or against them, causing a so-called intersex disorder, researchers found. Mutations in MAP3K1 emerged in individuals with XY chromosomes but female physical development in two of 11 sporadic cases and both families with [...]

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Herald-Sun: “Sex-change trigger gene found”

6 December 2010

MELBOURNE scientists have discovered that the alteration of a single gene causes some male embryos to develop as females. Sex development disorders, which can cause gender confusion, occur in one in 4500 births – or 16 babies born in Victoria every year. Lead Melbourne researcher Prof Andrew Sinclair, of Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, said the [...]

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On Karkazis, Tamar-Mattis and Kon: “Genital Surgery for Disorders of Sex Development, Implementing a Shared Decision-Making Approach”

6 November 2010

Publication: Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism. Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 789–805, ISSN (Online) 2191-0251, ISSN (Print) 0334-018X, DOI: 10.1515/jpem.2010.129, /August/2010 Authors: Katrina Karkazis Anne Tamar-Mattis Alexander A. Kon Institutions: Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA Advocates for Informed Choice, Cotati, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics and the Program in [...]

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dailyemerald.com: “University professor sheds light on closeted intersex controversy”

3 November 2010

SECRECY, shame and unethical experimentation are a few of the key issues that have historically surrounded intersex. Elizabeth Reis, a University history and gender studies professor, discussed the controversies and history of intersex in the U.S. at a lecture in light of the University Women’s Center hosting Intersex Awareness Week. Intersex is defined as “an [...]

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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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