intersex

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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The I word – I for intersex – is to be mentioned in the House of Lords, Tuesday, 24th January 2012. Will intersex be equally included in the proceedings?

4 January 2012

WE can be forgiven for being just a little dubious, given the United Kingdom’s truly rotten record on intersex equality, intersex human rights and intersex exclusion from the Equality Act 2010 and other law reforms, and the loss of the right to administrative corrections of sex resulting from the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Intersex people [...]

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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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Queensland Government is seeking an intersex person for newly intersex inclusive LGBTI roundtable

29 December 2011

IT has been a long time coming but the government of the Australian state of Queensland has extended its LGBT Roundtable, becoming intersex inclusive, and it is now looking for an intersex Queenslander to join the now renamed LGBTI Roundtable. The consultancy group’s term has been extended by another year to the end of 2012, but [...]

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The intersex-inclusive 2nd NSW Survey of LGBTIQ People and Relationships is now open for you to take part

29 December 2011

YET again an Australian agency shows the way for intersex inclusion, this time in the LGBTIQ domestic violence interagency’s The 2nd NSW Survey of LGBTIQ People and Relationships. Being overtly intersex inclusive and using intersex-including acronyms can in fact be done and actually doesn’t upset or “lose” people, a rather pathetic excuse we hear all [...]

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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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A quick trip to San Francisco: intersex activism can be hard work and a little play

28 December 2011

IT is not all work and no play at OII Australia – sometimes we manage to combine both. That was certainly the case in November when one of our members tagged along with her partner on an all-too-brief business trip to San Francisco.  While there our member met the good folks at LGBTI refugee resettlement [...]

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Thank you and happy holidays, Sen!

23 December 2011

OII Australia wishes to thank another of our longstanding allies in the Australian LGBTQI community, Senthorun Raj, for all his support over the years. Happy holidays, Sen!

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