intersexphobia

Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference calls for workshop proposals from intersex and trans presenters, for May to June 2012

9 December 2011

ONE would not naturally assume that issues of intersex health would be included in a transgender health conference given that intersex and transgender are two very different things. But the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference has included sessions on intersex health in the recent past and may well do so in future. The conference organizers have released [...]

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South African Broadcasting Corporation: Special Assignment, 20 October 2011

22 November 2011

THE stories of several LGBTI Africans persecuted for being born LGBTI. Zimbabwean refugee Tatenda Ngwaru was raised to believe she was a homosexual male, then became persuaded she was actually a transgender woman, then finally learned she is really intersex after fleeing to South Africa. Ms Ngwaru has now returned to Zimbabwe where she faces [...]

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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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Peter Tatchell, now intersex-inclusive LGBTI activist, reports on anti-homophobia speech at CHOGM

26 October 2011

AUSTRALIAN-BORN, London-based LGBTI human rights activist Peter Tatchell reports on a history-making anti-homophobia speech by Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma at a precursor event for CHOGM – Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting – in Perth yesterday.  “Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma made history when he voiced his support for gay rights in his keynote address [...]

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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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FreeEssays.cc: Intersexuality And Scripture

1 December 2010

AS a brute physical phenomenon, the bodiliness of people like us who are born intersexed challenges cherished assumptions about sex and gender made by many people within Western society. A variety of social institutions, including the dominant canons of medical practice and conceptions, much of the domain of the law itself, and some of the [...]

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news.com.au: Gay marriage: does your MP agree with you?

1 December 2010

OUR main piece shows that while most Australians are in favour, there is a wall of opposition to gay marriage running through western Sydney, one of the nation’s key election battlegrounds which both major parties must win over to win government. The results contradict the perception in Sydney that resistance on the issue is led [...]

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Physorg.com: Scientists identify gene linked to common birth defect in male genitalia

1 December 2010

IT was previously known that genetics play a part in developing the condition, with five percent of patients having an affected male relative, but the genes involved were unknown. This study shows for the first time that a gene inherited from the mother is likely to be important in development of the condition. Hypospadias is [...]

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The Independent Florida Alligator: Ingredient in hand wash may cause defects

29 November 2010

A new study by a team of researchers from UF suggests that a common antibacterial agent could cause birth defects. … The chemical triclosan is used in many common antibacterial hand washes, lotions and toothpaste, said Dr. Deborah Edgeworth, a gynecologist and obstetrician who’s familiar with the study. “We don’t need to be alarmist, but [...]

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