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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The term “sex” has been replaced by assigned “gender” in order to make the criteria applicable to individuals with a DSD (Meyer-Bahlburg, 2009b).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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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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Socialist Alliance: Policy on Intersex people

26 January 2010

Adopted at Socialist Alliance’s 7th National Conference, January 2010:
Intersex people are people born with physiological differences that may be seen as being both male and female at once, not wholly male or female or as neither male nor female.
Intersex people are subjected to discrimination in employment, in housing, in the provision of [...] Read more »

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IOC and gender inquisition

25 January 2010

Writer:
Patricia Nell Warren
While the IAAF has been backing and filling on the Caster Semenya case, many of us have been waiting for the IOC shoe to drop. Yesterday the shoe dropped. In Miami Beach, a panel of so-called “experts” convened by the IOC and the IAAF has announced from their imperial heights, “Athletes who identify [...] Read more »

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Edge Boston: Mass. trans couple settles discrimination case

20 January 2010

Samantha J. Cornell, a transgender woman, and her spouse Andrea V. Boisseau, who was born with an intersex condition, were awarded $6,000 in damages and attorney’s fees, even though the defendants did not admit any wrongdoing in the spring 2008 incident. … Read more »

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Sowetan: Where to Semenya? Runner’s future unclear as athletics season looms

16 January 2010

“The medical testing of the athlete is still to be completed,” said the IAAF, which has made it clear the results will be given personally to Semenya. Read more »

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Telegraph.co.uk – IAAF offers to pay for Caster Semenya’s gender surgery if she fails verification test

14 December 2009

The International Association of Athletics Federations has offered to pay Caster Semenya’s medical expenses should she require gender surgery or other treatment to continue competing as a woman.
The IAAF is still awaiting the final results of the gender verification test carried out on the South African teenager during the World Championships in Berlin in [...] Read more »

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An Article on Caster Semenya & Intersex from Judith Butler

22 November 2009

…The whole debate also elides the condition of intersex. We might say as well that the institution of world sports rests upon a certain denial of intersex as a persistent dimension of human morphology, genetics and endocrinology. What would happen if the IAAF or any other world sports organisation decided that it needed to come [...] Read more »

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Op-Ed: Ms Semenya, I Never Knew You

16 September 2009

The events surrounding the gold medal run by Ms Caster Semenya in August of this year have created a perfect storm of speculation around intersex.
I know little about Ms Semenya save that she has, by winning a gold medal, brought the full force of sex binary enforcement and intersexphobia down on her apparently unsuitable shoulders.
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Trained into Believing…

3 September 2009
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Gender Theory…

27 August 2009
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