Marriage Equality

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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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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Breakthrough! XXY researchers admit not all XXY people are male, that some may be female and some may be intersex

10 October 2011

SOME XXY people have described this breakthrough as The Holy Grail. Researchers at a cluster of respected Melbourne medical institutes, hospitals and universities have admitted in a letter to the editor of the International Journal of Andrology, The Official Journal of the European Academy of Andrology, that not all people with the XXY karyotype are [...]

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Rally for Equal Marriage Rights, Sydney Town Hall, Saturday 21st May 2011

5 May 2011
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Organisation Intersex International Australia Limited is not a peak organization

24 February 2011

SEVERAL articles in the Australia media have claimed that Organisation Intersex International Australia Limited is a “peak organization.” This assertion is simply not correct. OII Australia has never stated that it is a “peak organization” and by virtue of its corporate constitution it is not and cannot be such a body. The membership of peak [...]

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OII Australia president forecasts a busy year for intersex

15 February 2011

GINA Wilson, president of OII Australia, has predicted a busy year ahead for intersex people in Australia in her column in StarOnline, the online digital publication of Sydney’s www.starobserver.com.au. Amongst other things Ms Wilson mentioned medicine’s pathologization as a disorder from 2006 – an act against all intersex people aided and abetted by the leadership [...]

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StarOnline: ‘Salami equality not the answer’

3 December 2010

GLBTI groups have praised Liberal Warren Entsch for his support for reform on issues effecting the intersex and transgender communities and older GLBTI people, but rejected the idea these were higher priorities than marriage equality. During debate on Adam Bandt’s same-sex marriage motion, Entsch told the parliament, “While I support gays and lesbians in having [...]

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Gina Wilson’s Marrage Equality speech, 27th November 2010

1 December 2010

WELCOME! Today we have gathered to insist on the right of all people to marry irrespective of sex or gender. The call for this right is often characterized as a call for “gay ” or “same-sex marriage” but that’s only a part of the story. The reason those rights are denied to us who are [...]

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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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Marriage Equality Rally – Gina Wilson speaks

1 December 2010
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Australian Marriage Equality: We support a conscience vote on marriage equality, Do you?

24 October 2010

A conscience vote will help us achieve marriage equality. If you support the  freedom of same-sex couples to marry Please support the freedom of politicians to vote for it and use the below form to call on the Prime Minister and Leader of the opposition to allow a conscience vote. … Editorial comment: INTERSEX Australians [...]

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SSO: Intersex “Forgotten”

23 October 2010

INTERSEX advocacy group Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia is calling for more support from the GLBT community support in advocating for the rights of intersex people. OII president Gina Wilson said it was crucial intersex issues be aired during the Australian Human Rights Commission’s sexual orientation, sex and gender identity discrimination consultation, currently underway. “It [...]

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