intersex exclusion

When medicine can be dangerous to your health and human rights – ACOG pretends that intersex is transgender

16 January 2012

MEDICINE, as we often point out, is not a science but a technical art that sometimes makes reference to science. Medical people are as subject to systems of belief – religions and ideologies unsupported by scientific inquiry – as non-medical people. Systems of belief, by their very nature of being based on belief, have little [...]

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[Media Release] 2012 to build on achievements of 2011 for the National LGBTI Health Alliance

10 January 2012

“2011 was a significant year for the National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Health Alliance”, said Paul Martin, Chair of the Alliance Board. “Considerable progress was made in priority areas that had been worked on for some time. In the short space of a year, the Alliance has grown from three part-time positions [...]

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UK GEO 2011 transgender action plan excludes intersex

9 January 2012

WE really should not be surprised, given how poor the UK Government Equalities Office‘s efforts on behalf of intersex people have been to date. Surveys promised to be intersex inclusive have been anything but, or have been inclusive only in the most token manner. Now the inevitable has happened and the GEO’s Advancing transgender equality: a plan for [...]

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A grain of truth about intersex within a jaundiced view of intersex and trans

9 January 2012

THOSE more knowledgable about right wing publications tell us that we should not expect much from UK magazine The Spectator when it comes to LGBTQI issues and Rod Liddle‘s latest column fits that description. But there is a grain of truth in what he writes as well, and we wonder where it comes from. Most of the [...]

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Amy André reports on $0 bisexual funding in Funders for LGBTQ Issues report; intersex funding may be $0

9 January 2012

US bisexual academic, activist and writer Amy André reports in Huffington Post about the fact that bisexual people – about half of all LGBT people – received zero grant funding according to the recently-released Funders for LGBTQ 2010 report. We note that there is no mention of intersex in that report at all, with the possibility that intersex [...]

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Our Logo

1 January 2012

WE have been asked to explain why our logo looks the way it does and to justify apparently controversial design choices like setting it in lower case instead of upper case. Some erstwhile critics have demanded to know why we did not opt for some kind of icon that would somehow represent the idea of [...]

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Canada Border Services Agency announces new strip search rules for intersex and trans travellers

31 December 2011

CANADIAN newsmagazine Maclean’s reports on a new Canada Border Services Agency policy for strip searching intersex or trans people entering Canada. Released in August, the protocol applies to “transsexual or intersexed” individuals; people who strongly identify or seek to live as a member of the opposite sex, have undergone surgery to physically change their sex, [...]

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The New York Times and accuracy in reporting matters LGBT and LGBTI? Clearly not. LGBT and LGBTI do not equal “gay”.

31 December 2011

MARK Landler of The New York Times veers just a bit from the complete story in reporting on some of the main and supporting players in the LGBT – no I for intersex – push for fundamental human rights in the Obama administration. Gay rights? No Mr Landler, LGBTI rights, and we mean the acronym [...]

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31 December 2011

What is intersex? THE term intersex was adopted by science in the early 20th century and applied to human beings whose biological sex cannot be classified as clearly male or female. An intersex person may have the biological attributes of both sexes or lack some of the biological attributes considered necessary to be defined as [...]

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GNN reports on Organisation Intersex International Chairperson Hida Viloria’s appeal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to exclude intersex people from global human rights initiatives

30 December 2011

IN one of the least pleasant surprises of 2011 for intersex people, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left intersex – 4% of the global population and some of the most brutally oppressed of all – out of her remarks to the United Nations in Geneva on the topic of worldwide LGBT human rights and [...]

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Gay News Network ends 2011 with a survey of LGBTI “leaders” and their desires for the coming new year, 2012

30 December 2011

OII Australia president Gina Wilson is quoted in the GNN on some of our plans for the coming year, 2012. The new year will see us busier than ever. While marriage equality is something that Gina Wilson, chairperson of Organisation Intersex Australia (OII), is also hopeful for, the tireless activist told SX that the intersex [...]

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) advertises intersex inclusive LGBTI fellowship

30 December 2011

YET again a human rights organization based in the United States of America demonstrates that it is possible to include intersex in its remit and not cause the world to come crashing down. Some “experts” seem to think that I for intersex in the acronym LGBTI is one step too far for the world to accept. Clearly [...]

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