homophobia

Intersex-inclusive Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby continues the fight against homophobia in the Commonwealth

25 October 2011

RETIRED Australian High Court Justice Michael Kirby has always been intersex-inclusive as long as we have known him, and it is wonderful to see he is once again being actively intersex-inclusive in his current project, working on eradicating homophobia from the Commonwealth. Justice Kirby, who came out in 1999, will address a special conference on [...]

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Richard Muasya in Kenya: Lifelong intersex exclusion leads to the inevitable, exclusion from the means to live, then jail, rape, violence and yet more exclusion

20 July 2011

OII-Kenya affiliate lawyer John Chigiti represents a number of intersex Kenyans in matters of the law in that country, apparently giving the lie to statements made during the recent trial of Kenyan intersex person Richard Muasya that there are no intersex people in Kenya and therefore no need to include them in the legislation of [...]

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ILGA releases report on state-sponsored homophobia, not yet intersex-inclusive

22 May 2011

OII Australia welcomes the release of the The International Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual and Intersex Association’s (ILGA) 2011 report State-Sponsored Homophobia and looks forward to the day, hopefully coming very soon, when a future edition of this report acknowledges that the persecution of intersex people is the direct product of homophobia and that it takes [...]

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[Op/Ed] IDAHO, intersex & homophobia

8 May 2011

WITH IDAHO – International Day Against Homophobia – falling on May 17th this year, it is pertinent to remember why intersex is a part of the LGBTIQ alliance. Intersex individuals generally have a sexual orientation, however it is more likely to be perceived as heterosexual than same sex. We also have a gender identity, however [...]

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Fundamental Rights Agency: Homophobia, Transphobia and Discrimination on grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 2010 Update

4 December 2010

1. Regulation of gender reassignment TERMS and concepts surrounding these issues are fluid and under continued debate and, in this sense, note should be made of the broader notion of “trans people”, which is taken to represent a wider category encompassing transsexuals and transgender people as well as those who self-identify in other ways, such [...]

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iPetition: Petition Ken Zucker’s Invitation as a Keynote Speaker to the DCP Conference 2010

13 November 2010

THE Division of Clinical Psychology has invited Professor Ken Zucker from Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) as a keynote for their annual conference in December 2010 (www.dcpconference.co.uk). Professor Zucker is considered an authoritative figure in the controversial diagnosis and ‘treatment’ of children with ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ (Hill et al. 2005). Professor Zucker [...]

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The Terminology of Intersex

13 November 2010

THERE are two fundamental issues that must be considered when considering terminology around intersex. Scientific nomenclature: INTERSEX is a scientific term that describes all differences of sex biology within the animal kingdom that are not hermaphroditic. Terminology such as “hermaphrodite”, “pseudo-hermaphrodite”, “disorders” and “conditions” have been used in some medical literature to describe intersex differences [...]

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American Psychiatric Association DSM-5 Development

31 October 2010

302.6 Gender Identity Disorder in Children Gender Incongruence (in children) [1] A. A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/expressed gender and assigned gender, of at least 6 months duration, as manifested by at least 6* of the following indicators (including A1):  [2, 3, 4] 1. a strong desire to be of the other gender or an [...]

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The Times of India: They changed, society didn’t

26 October 2010

R Selvi is a qualified physiotherapist but works as a security guard at a private software company. Ask her why and tears well up in her eyes. Selvi, born as Muthu, is a transgender who lost her job as an assistant physiotherapist at a sports club in the city after she underwent a sex change [...]

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RD Magazine: The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

24 October 2010

ALTHOUGH the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) remains stalled one year after it was first introduced in the Ugandan Parliament, the intimidation, harassment, and violence it was designed to incite remain an everyday part of life, and an urgent human rights crisis for LGBT Ugandans. … Kaggwa is also the executive director of the Support Initiative [...]

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IPS: U.N. Urged to Confront Rising Tide of Homophobia

24 October 2010

NEARLY two years after the Declaration on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity was proposed to the United Nations General Assembly, many civil society groups say that little has been done to safeguard the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people around the world. In a perverse commemoration of the U.N.’s failure to [...]

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Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons: 3rd World Congress of Pediatric Surgery

20 October 2010

2. Case presentation and Live Operations on Hypospadias (OR 10 and OR 11) Operative sessions on Anterior, Posterior and Re-do Hypospadias OR Teams: Veereshwar Bhatnagar and Sandeep Agarwala, Martin Koyle, USA Paolo Caione, Italy Peter Cuckow, UK Pramod Reddy, USA John Hutson, Australia, Martin Kaefer, USA 3. Live Operations on Female Genitoplasty- Citoroplasty, vaginoplasty, UGS [...]

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