Different priorities
Ever feel like there are different priorities? Folks talk with us about birth certificates. We talk about health, sterilisation, bodily autonomy and peer support. #intersex
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Open community social events in Sydney, second Tuesday of each month
Open community social events for people with intersex variations will start in Sydney on 9 December 2014, in partnership with the AIS Support Group Australia. Anyone with an intersex variation is welcome, as are parents and families of children and adults with intersex variations. You don’t need to be a member of either organisation to come along.
Newtown Festival, 2014
Folks who follow our social media accounts will know that a group of people from OII Australia and the AIS Support Group Australia participated through a stall in the 2014 Newtown Festival recently…
The “Phall-O-Meter”
The Phall-O-Meter is a satirical representation of the way that clinicians have historically determined whether visibly intersex children should be assigned female (and subjected to feminising surgeries) or assigned male (and subjected to masculinising surgeries).
Tony Briffa speaks at Monash University on intersex human rights
Tony Briffa spoke at Monash University’s Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, on the human rights of intersex people, on 7 October from 6pm to 7.30pm. The Castan Centre is part of the university’s Faculty of Law.
Petition: let Dutee Chand run
We invite you to consider signing this petition on the exclusion of women with high natural levels of testosterone from participating in competitive sport.
Tony Briffa in Body&Soul: “I’m proud to be intersex”
Tony Briffa appears in an article in the “Body and Soul” magazine today, in the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Mail (QLD), Sunday Mail (SA), Sunday Territorian, Sunday Times and the Sunday Tasmanian.
Schoolbook on “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, and intersex status
We have recently received a copy of “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, a schoolbook by Australian publisher The Spinney Press in their “Issues in Society” series. It also contains content on intersex people and intersex issues.
Intersex and ANZPATH
OII Australia recently wrote to ANZPATH (Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for Transgender Health) regarding a position taken by that organisation suggesting intersex was part of its remit, and part of their description of transgender.
No scientific basis for current policy excluding elite intersex women from sport
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism this month contains an important report on research by the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Medical and Anti-Doping Department and Commission, and others.
AISSGA annual conference this weekend
This weekend our friends at the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia (AISSGA) hold their annual conference, in Sydney near Central Station.
Let Dutee Chand run
We are disturbed by reports that Indian woman athlete Dutee Chand has been denied a position in the Indian Commonwealth Games team, on the basis of a test result showing elevated natural levels of blood testosterone.