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OII Petition to International Olympic Committe regarding Intersex Athletes

25 February 2010

We, the undersigned, support the members of the Organisation Intersex International, in their demands that:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandon its demands that female athletes with intersex variations have their variations diagnosed and treated.
The IOC allow the above mentioned athletes, known as intersex women, to compete as females without having to undergo diagnosis or “treatment.”
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Just how Scientific is all this ‘Science?’

18 February 2010

The term “sex” has been replaced by assigned “gender” in order to make the criteria applicable to individuals with a DSD (Meyer-Bahlburg, 2009b). Read more »

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Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Position Statement: DSM-V Draft, February 2010

16 February 2010

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is currently rewriting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). This will be its fifth full revision. http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx
The DSM sets out the diagnostic criteria for all mental illness recognized by the APA.
Countries outside America use the DSM widely. Australia is one such country. Australian psychiatrists contribute to the DSM and use [...] Read more »

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BBC News: Gender testing in sport: A case for treatment?

16 February 2010

“At the elite level, athletes who have unique abilities tend to possess physical characteristics that are advantageous in their particular sport. For example, being tall in basketball and petite-size with delayed sexual development in gymnastics, these athletes tend to be very successful,” says Professor Myron Genel, a paediatrician and specialist in Disorders of Sex Development [...] Read more »

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Eugenics in action against intersex

12 February 2010

Recent news articles have alerted OII to new genetic testing procedures. These procedures are aimed at expectant parents. They offer the prospect of a flawless child. That prospect can only be realized by eliminating those embryos that come along with less than perfect genes.
OII supposes abortion is the method that would be used to facilitate [...] Read more »

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Bioethics Forum: Fetal Cosmetology

10 February 2010

There’s a common misperception that, now that the Johns Hopkins psychologist John Money is gone, so are all the ethical problems with the way people with genital anomalies are treated. Not so. 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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Andrea James on ISNA: ISNA’s legacy of shame and secrecy: The Sextard Movement

23 November 2009

We have noted, and been appalled by, the way the media keeps dragging the rotting corpse of ISNA – Intersex Society of North America – out when it writes stories to do with intersex, as if ISNA still exists, still has something useful to say or has any degree of authority to speak or act [...] Read more »

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Letter to the Editor of Marie Claire Australia

8 November 2009

The Publisher/Editor, Marie Claire Australia
Ms Jackie Frank
35-51 Mitchell Street
McMahons Point
NSW 2060 Australia
8 November 2009
Dear Ms Frank:
I have read the article on intersex in the December issue of Marie Claire Australia with dismay.
I am cited in that article as having had feminizing surgery as a child. This is untrue. My childhood was [...] Read more »

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ExpressBuzz: Ponni Arasu: Revealing the absurdity of binary

8 November 2009

“Ins Kromminga has been in Delhi for the past few days. He/she was the guest artist at the Nigah Queer fest ‘09. The fest, which has partially collaborated with the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi for the past two years has had one artist from Germany every year. Ins Kromminga is an artist and activist [...] Read more »

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Between XX and XY – Dreger Testifies

5 August 2009

Historian and ethicist Dr Alice Domurat Dreger co-founded the now defunct Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), which morphed into Accord Alliance after ISNA jettisoned its intersex members.
Accord Alliance is an organisation of doctors and enthusiasts for non-consensual intersex surgery. It adopted a replacement term for intersex – Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) – [...] Read more »

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When Enthusiasts for Non-consensual Intersex Surgery Spin the Facts

17 July 2009

We were struck by the blatant spin contained in a recent report published in the Medical Journal of Australia and an accompanying press release on the AMA website.
We are trying to find out the AMA’s position on non-consensual surgery on intersex infants. We are aware that some of their members remain very enthusiastic about [...] Read more »

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