IGM

A writer speaks out on the global genocide against intersex people

29 December 2011

THE fact of the brutal mistreatment of intersex people around the world – killing intersex newborns by throwing them down wells, hurling them into pit latrines, crushing their skulls, cutting up their genitals aka intersex genital mutilation (IGM) – continues to be heavily suppressed but every so often someone speaks out about it in attempt [...]

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Intersex woman Sarah Graham writes a Letter to My Body for BBC Radio 3

16 December 2011

SARAH Graham is a therapist and counsellor in the UK who was born with the intersex variation Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS). AIS, along with CAH and XXY is one of the most common biological variations underlying intersex. She and her family were lied to by doctors from the age of eight until she learned the [...]

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German intersex woman Christiane Voelling reads from her book Ich war Mann und Frau, Mein Leben als Intersexuelle

12 December 2011

GERMAN intersex woman Christiane Voelling reads from her autobiographical book Ich war Mann und Frau – Mein Leben als Intersexuelle (I have been man and woman – my life as an intersex) tonight, December 12 2011, at Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte in Berlin at 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Ms Voelling won an historic court case against [...]

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Yet another case of female genital mutilation (FGM), a sister practice of intersex genital mutilation (IGM)

7 December 2011

FEMALE genital mutilation (FGM) remains entrenched in many parts of the world, alongside intersex genital mutilation (IGM). FGM is more commonly practised outside the so-called first world whereas IGM is more commonly carried out in the so-called first world.  Both practices are obscenities, complete and utter violations of human rights and human bodies and must [...]

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Yet more nonconsensual surgery aka intersex genital mutilation upon an intersex infant, this time in Russia

2 December 2011

THE mutilation of intersex newborns and infants seemingly never ends and goes on everywhere across the globe, this time in the Russian city of Rostov. Intersex genital mutilation (IGM) could very much be considered a disease of modern medicine, a disorder of medicine’s all-too-common magical thinking.  A 2-year-old boy underwent a sex change operation in [...]

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Candlelight vigil in San Francisco for intersex, female and male lives lost to circumcision or other non-therapeutic forms of genital cutting, 4th December

30 November 2011

GENITAL integrity website IntactNews is publicizing a candlelight vigil on behalf of intersex people, females and males who have lost their lives due to circumcision and other forms of needless genital cutting. Join Bay Area Intactivists for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the male, female and intersex children who have lost their lives due [...]

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Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) – apparently it all ended forever in 1992

29 November 2011

WE have been encountering a minor but persistent belief that intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka nonconsensual surgery on intersex newborns aka “cosmetic genital surgery” ended once and for all twenty years ago. That would mean the mythical end of the experimental surgery best known as IGM occurred sometime in 1992. Propagators of this myth seem to [...]

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Intersex people with AIS found to be dissatisfied with results of non-consensual genital surgery done upon them as newborns and infants

22 November 2011

IT comes as no surprise to intersex people ourselves that many if not most, perhaps all, intersex people subjected to intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka intersex genital surgery, aka non-consensual sex assignment of intersex newborns, are dissatisfied to varying degrees with the results of that surgery – surgery which remains a standard treatment for intersex infants.  [...]

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Syracuse University College of Law – Anne Tamar-Mattis: Protecting the Civil Rights of Intersex Children

22 November 2011

Anne Tamar-Mattis, Executive Director of Advocates for Informed Choice, visited the College of Law to discuss the legal and ethical issues of consent surrounding genital surgeries in children born with intersex conditions. Editorial comment: OUR ongoing work in the struggle for intersex equality and human rights continues to reveal that pretending the natural biological variations [...]

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ORAM second annual lecture series – The Invisible Refugee: Intersex, Persecution and Protection, parts 1, 2 & 3

22 November 2011

Advocates for Informed Choice Founder and Executive Director Anne Tamar-Mattis discusses the legal, medical and survival challenges that intersex refugees encounter in their cross-border searches for safe haven. This lecture was delivered as part of ORAM’s Second Annual Lecture Series held June 24, 2011, in San Francisco, CA. Editorial comment: OUR ongoing work in the [...]

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Ellen Feder on Reassigning Ambiguity: Intersex, Biomedicine, and the Question of Harm

22 November 2011

Editorial comment: OUR ongoing work in the struggle for intersex equality and human rights continues to reveal that pretending the natural biological variations of intersex are somehow, magically and mysteriously, “medical conditions” or diseases or physical or mental disorders or DSDs or Disorders of Sex Development or illnesses to be “cured” mitigates against the ability of intersex people to [...]

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Intersex Day of Remembrance is tomorrow, Tuesday 8th November

7 November 2011

THE 8th November is Intersex Day of Remembrance and Herculine Barbin’s birthday. OII Australia and Organisation Intersex International would like to invite others to join us each year by commemorating November 8 as Intersex Day of Remembrance. All human rights organizations, feminist allies, academics and gender specialists, as well as other groups and individuals interested [...]

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