ACT legislation: Media wrap up and thanks
ACT Legislation media wrap up and thank you to the community that helped us get here.
News reports (page 1 of 6)
Various media reports on intersex issues.
Unacceptable behaviour
The stigmatisation of intersex people runs deep, and crops up in all sorts of ways that indicate how it is just taken for granted as normal and acceptable behaviour. We need your help to end it.
“I’m intersex and I wish doctors had left my body alone” – Mikayla Cahill
Thanks to Mikayla Cahill and Georgia Andrews, and reporter Zoe Madden-Smith, for this video and news story on experiences of medicine and disclosure, by Re News in Aotearoa New Zealand.
“People just can’t comprehend” – Tasmanian farmer, Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson and Simone-Lisa Anderson, and a representative of the AMA, talk with April McLennan at ABC Tasmania.
My Body/My Choice: Make space to talk about intersex human rights
I’m a WA representative for Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA), a national intersex-led charity that provides peer support to people with intersex variations and our families. In my role, I get to meet many other people with intersex variations and parents.
Publication of Darlington Statement, a common platform on intersex community goals in Aus/NZ
We announce publication of a joint consensus statement, the “Darlington Statement”, by Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand intersex organisations and independent advocates, in March 2017. It sets out common priorities and calls to action by the intersex human rights movement in our countries.
Miraculous thinking
The problem with interviews like this is that the interviewee’s story is incidental to the story in the journalist’s head, and that story doesn’t depend on facts.
Alex David talks with The Australian
Thank you to Alex David and reporter Caroline Overington for this article in The Australian on 8 December 2016.
Body shaming is an intersex issue
Body shaming is an intersex issue, perhaps even more than any other issue. This post intersperses quotations about intersex infants and children with quotations about the bodies of public figures.
Reporting on the Olympics
Much of the reporting on some women athletes participating in the Rio Olympics is insupportable. It makes assumptions about their bodies, sex, gender identity and expressions that is deeply concerning.
Chilean Ministry of Health issues instructions stopping “normalising” interventions on intersex children
The Chilean Ministry of Health has issued instructions to its national health sector to stop “normalising” medical interventions on intersex infants and children. This guidance is a global first. However, it has since been rescinded.
Shon Klose, on ABC’s One Plus One
Thank you to Shon Klose, interviewed here for ABC’s One Plus One program.