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Klinefelter syndrome

Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, Drops the Ball

31 July 2009

We are sad to see that the European Commissioner for Human Rights has dropped the ball very badly indeed when it comes to human rights for intersex people.
The Commissioner’s issue paper – Human Rights and Gender Identity – that was released on 29th July only mentions that word ‘intersex’ once, in its introduction, and [...] Read more »

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‘Rogue Genes’ in Men Reported in the UK Daily Mail

29 July 2009

It is always interesting observing how the popular press reports on conditions that may lead to intersex.
After all, for most intersex people the only way we even get to learn that we are intersex is through reading whatever comes to hand.
And usually that ain’t much, and most often it gets it very badly wrong.
As [...] Read more »

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US Media Skirts Around the Question of Intersex, Yet Again

24 July 2009

Chloe Prince is intersex, yet the ABC News online article relating to their Primetime: Family Secrets episode featuring her does not mention her being intersex at all.
Luckily, a few wised-up commentators do.
Being rendered invisible, whether by the media, legislators, NGOs, governments and most notoriously, medicine, has done intersex people no good whatsoever. It has [...] Read more »

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How They Dance Around the Word ‘Intersex’

3 July 2009

We are often struck by how strenuously medicine and science sometimes work to avoid using the word intersex, and how their practitioners may do and say anything to skirt around acknowledging that intersex exists.
This article reported at TS-Si is an example: Chromosomal Variations Affect Nearly All Human Embryos. The sidebar is of particular note, listing [...] Read more »

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Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Submission to the National Human Rights Consultation

15 June 2009

15 June 2009
Organisation Intersex International Australia’s Submission to the Australian Human Rights Consultation
Organisation intersex International (OII) is the world’s largest intersex organisation. It is the only intersex organisation that is made up of, predominantly, intersex individuals with 98% of our membership identifying as intersex.
Organisation Intersex International Australia is the Australian arm of OII.
OII has members [...] Read more »

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Science and Sexuality, by Dr Veronica Drantz

10 June 2009

Biologist and physiologist Veronica Drantz PhD has produced an excellent PowerPoint presentation titled Science and Sexuality: The Biology of Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Intersexuality.
We recommend it, although we are uncomfortable with the clinical images it contains of intersex people.
OII Australia does not generally approve of photographs of intersex individuals.
We are especially uncomfortable with photographs taken [...] Read more »

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Hormones & Me, for XXY Boys

4 April 2009

We have come across this brochure about Klinefelter Syndrome, written by Dr Margaret Zacharin of the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Dr Zacharin is “a paediatric endocrinologist specialising in childhood and adult endocrine disorders and a member of the Australasian Paediatric Endocrinology Group (APEG).”
It is interesting to note that the brochure is oriented only to [...] Read more »

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Letter to Geoffrey Robertson QC

10 March 2009

Dear Mr Robertson.
I am reading with interest your recent publication The Statute Of Liberty, and have seen your articles in the Australian press concerning human rights and Australians.
I write to make you aware of the complete lack of protection for intersex individuals not only in Australia but anywhere in the world.
Intersex people have hormonal, congenital [...] Read more »

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Rights for Intersex

16 February 2009

Recently there has been a flurry of activity for human rights in Australia:

The Human Rights Commissioner has finalized his report into same sex relationships and is in the process of finalizing his Sex & Gender Diversity report.
The federal government has appointed four eminent persons to conduct community consultations on Human Rights issues and report back.
The Queensland [...] Read more »

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Media

8 January 2009

Media refers to digital media of various types as well as to the Media as an entity. Here are some suggested subpages to go in here:

OII Media Projects
Press
Videos on the Web Read more »

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