Trump’s Executive Order on “gender ideology” and “biological truth” uses a gamete-based definition of sex, which is not directly tested for at birth, and which will have adverse consequences for many intersex people.
2024 has been a huge and transformative year for us. Thanks to all members, directors and staff, donors, and all our partners around the country and internationally. We look forward to continuing to collaborate in 2025.
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We elcome the launch of the National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People 2025-2035. The plan marks a significant step forward in ensuring the health and wellbeing of individuals with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC) across Australia.
Intersex Human Rights Australia and Intersex Peer Support Australia are uniting to form a new force for change: InterAction for Health and Human Rights. Folks may also wish to call us InterAction DownUnder, or just InterAction.
We’re seeking support for a new diversity equity and inclusion project to address the unique needs of people with innate variations of sex characteristics in workplaces.
We have today been advised by the ABS that the government will not include a question on innate variations of sex characteristics in the 2026 census, despite including questions on sex, sexuality and gender.
A joint statement with LGBTIQ+ Health Australia: Lack of LGBTIQ+ inclusion in the next census will adversely impact health outcomes.
The United Nations made a historic move to protect the human rights of intersex persons, 35 civil society organisations said today, as the Human Rights Council adopted its first-ever resolution specifically addressing discrimination, violence, and harmful practices against persons with innate variations in sex characteristics.
Announcement: A multi-institutional research team has been awarded $5M in federal government funding to help create a safer and better future for people with innate variations in sex characteristics (IVSC).
IHRA is delighted to announce the appointment of Mauro Cabral Grinspan as Principal Consultant, and coordinator for a new international project aimed at dismantling human rights violations in medical settings on people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Read our round-up of actions and events taking place to mark Intersex Awareness Day 2023 around Australia.
Ten years ago today, on 25 October 2013, a Senate Committee published a report on the ‘Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia’. This was the first parliamentary inquiry into intersex health anywhere in the world, and we celebrate it for this!