
Intersex: intersectionalities with disabled people
The lived experience of intersex people, and the intersex movement, have many intersectionalities with experiences of disability and the disability movement.
The lived experience of intersex people, and the intersex movement, have many intersectionalities with experiences of disability and the disability movement.
OII Australia, together with OII Aotearoa/NZ, today released a submission to the American Psychiatric Association regarding the draft Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition.
Guidance on including people with innate variations of sex characteristics in research studies and surveys.
Sociologist Georgiann Davis Ph.D. recently had published her paper on DSD in Sociology of Diagnosis, Advances in Medical Sociology, Volume 12, 155–182. The paper, “DSD is a perfectly fine term”: Reasserting Medical Authority Through a Shift in Intersex Terminology is a hugely important critique and highly recommended reading. The context Even though the diagnosis carried…
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Our submission on the National Human Rights Action Plan, Consultation Version.
A Brisbane Family Court case in 1979, In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C), annulled a marriage on the basis that an intersex man could not be legally married because marriage can only be between someone who is seen to be wholly male and someone who is seen to be wholly female….
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IHRA’s Morgan Carpenter wrote and presented this paper at the After ‘Homosexual’ conference in Melbourne in February 2012. The focus is on intersectionalities with same-sex attracted people.
OII member and photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, in an interview by Morgan of OII Australia for an ‘Intersex 101’ workshop at “Camp Betty” in Sydney.
The rights and concerns of intersex people overlap and intersect with the rights and concerns of women, LGBT people, and disabled and racialised peoples.
Intersex people in several Australian are able to obtain an administrative correction of intersex birth registrations, including correction to alternative male, female, or (in some cases) blank designation.
Morgan writes about the problems associated with being prescribed a controlled substance.