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infant genital mutilation

The Scavenger: Sex not specified: Australia leads the way with legal document

9 March 2010

NSW Births Deaths and Marriages then issued the ‘Sex Not Specified’ Details Recognition Certificate in accordance with recommendations made by the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2009 report on the legal rights of sex and gender diverse people proposing a greater scope of legal recognition be used beyond male and female for certain individuals.

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denverpost.com: Trinidad surgeon helps women escape past of mutilation

8 March 2010

The World Health Organization estimates that 100 million to 140 million women worldwide, but especially in northern and central Africa, have endured female genital mutilation, or FGM.
Usually done to girls before age 15, the practice involves at least slicing off part or all of the exposed clitoris. In some cultures, the cutting is more extensive, [...] Read more »

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Tufts Daily: Elisha Sum | Our Genderation – Not my daughter, you…

2 March 2010

Though hard to believe, genital mutilation has been happening in the United States for quite some time. Of course, the prominent discourse has not framed the repeated medical procedures as such, in part due to ignorance and to avoid the acknowledgment of the infringement of human rights. Read more »

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The Good Doctors

23 February 2010

Not every doctor wants to cut up the genitals of intersex newborns in a vain bid to ‘cure’ their intersex once and for all. Read more »

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ABC News: Female circumcision happening in Australia

16 February 2010

“We bring imams or priests to convince them that there is nothing from both books that says you have to do circumcision to girls. So why are you doing it?”
Ms Mohamud is optimistic the practice will end, but she fears migrant communities or individual women will be demonised. Read more »

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The Suicide Rate for Intersex Youth is 30%

10 February 2010

Editorial comment:
Oswald’s song Flying to the Ground has touched us deeply.
The suicide rate for intersex children and adolescents is reportedly 30%.
Oh that shooting pain, as my spine begins to crack. Read more »

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Yellow for Hermaphrodite – Mani’s Story

8 February 2010

This documentary traces the life of intersex activist Mani Mitchell. ‘Intersexual’ is a term to describe a person with atypical combinations of biological features that usually distinguish males from females. … Read more »

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Introducing Hida Viloria

3 February 2010

We are pleased to note that Hida Viloria has joined the membership of OII. Welcome, Hida! 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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Having Betrayed Intersex through ISNA, Bo Laurent Vanishes from Its Successor, the Accord Alliance

22 January 2010

So the ISNA (Intersex Society of North America) trojan horse has done its work and the very last intersex member of successor organization, Accord Alliance (AA), has vanished from its ranks.
Good-bye, Bo Laurent aka Cheryl Chase. Read more »

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Two Reports from Germany: Intersex & Transsexualism

20 January 2010

We have had our attention drawn to two reports from Germany about the way intersex people and people with transsexualism are treated in that country. They do not make happy reading. 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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