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Letter from Superintendent Donna Adney, Corporate Spokesperson GLBTI Issues, NSW Police Force

25 February 2010

The NSW Police Force is reviewing all of its processes in respect of LGBTI contact with police. Custody, search, incarceration and security clearance will be a part of this in depth revision. Organisation Intersex International is pleased to be a part of this process and will report the outcomes of this review. Read more »

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Valentine’s Day Kiss-In for Marriage Equality in Sydney’s Taylor Square

15 February 2010

OII Australia attended the Community Action Against Homophobia’s (CAAH) Valentine’s Day protest for marriage equality.

OII Australia supports same sex marriage and more. Intersex bodies show the lie in the ideals of sex and gender binaries and in the notion that if marriage rights are extended to gay and lesbian couples then all people will have [...] Read more »

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T-Shirt Design for When Intersex is Excluded

3 February 2010

We at OII Australia are often invited to attend public events where intersex is excluded or where the organizations involved refuse to include I in their acronym to form LGBTI or variations thereof. 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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The Current Marriage Act Excludes Intersex. A Same Sex Marriage Act Will Exclude Intersex.

28 November 2009
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Same Sex Marriage & Opposite Sex Marriage Both Exclude Intersex. We Demand Nothing Less than Marriage Equality.

16 November 2009

Please go to our Posters page to download this campaign poster as a PDF. Read more »

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Same Sex Marriage. Opposite Sex Marriage. Both Exclude Intersex.

15 November 2009

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Same Sex Marriage Excludes Intersex Just as Much as the Current Marriage Law

15 November 2009

Please go to our Posters page to download this campaign poster as a PDF. Read more »

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The Not So Private Lives of Some Intersex People

19 September 2009

The interim report of the Not So Private Lives survey by Sharon Dane of The University of Queensland has been released in time for consideration in the Senate’s investigation into so-called same sex marriage. The report concludes that the majority of so-called same sex attracted Australians want the option of marriage, same as every other [...] Read more »

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Apology to Intersex People for Anti-Greens, Anti-Intersex Ads

17 September 2009

The Timber Communities Australia (TCA) lobby group has apologized to all Australian intersex people for its political advertisements criticizing the Australian Greens’ policies on intersex, via Tasmanian human rights activist Martine Delaney.
We wish to point out, to the ABC, that intersex is not somehow transgender. We gratefully thank Ms Delaney for accepting the apology [...] Read more »

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For Those Who Might Speak on Our Behalf

15 September 2009

We at OII Australia have been stunned and amazed at how everyone else except us was asked by members of the Australian media to speak about intersex and on behalf of intersex people when the Caster Semenya story was given a fresh turn recently.
We were almost uniformly appalled at what was said about Mokgadi [...] Read more »

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The Act, not The Fact

31 August 2009
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