IDAHOBIT Day 2023
Our statement on this day in 2023.
Personal comment (page 1 of 5)
Personal opinions
IDAHOBIT Day 2022
A short reflection on the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia and what it means to people with innate variations of sex characteristics in 2022.
Statement on 10 News reporting on intersex women in sport
Caster Semenya, born a woman, raised a woman, who has demonstrated nothing but hard-earned excellence in her field is harmed by irresponsible reporting.
Writing an intersex character
Hans Lindahl, formerly of interACT, presents here one of best discussions about how to write intersex characters in fiction. We highly commend this video, and other work by Hans.
YOUth & I intersex youth publication
In YOUth & I, intersex youth tell their own stories, how they want to and in their own way. YOUth & I is an Australian publication created and edited by Steph Lum, and supported by the ACT Capital of Equality grants program. Download a free copy.
Tony Briffa: Conversion therapy organisation welcomed at Melbourne’s Midsumma Pride March
Imagine being a proud member of the LGBTI community, and a survivor of childhood and adolescent conversion therapies, and seeing the organisation that abused you and tried to make you fit heteronormative stereotypes welcomed into the Melbourne Pride March. With no apology, and no evidence of change to their practices.
Steph Lum: “Intersex self-love”
Steph Lum has won a prize for the poem “Intersex self-love”, in the Canberra SpringOut essay competition. Congratulations, Steph! Here’s the poem in its entirety.
Morgan Carpenter: “Clinical self-regulation has failed”
On invitation, Morgan Carpenter has written a post for the journal Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.
Tony Briffa: “The Hippocratic Oath, Western Medicine, and the Children of Hermes and Aphrodite”
Co-executive director Tony Briffa writes on being intersex and Maltese Australian in the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An anthology of Australian, in a new anthology, with an extract in Archer Magazine.
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.
Sexuality, sex and gender diversity?
Morgan Carpenter writes about these terms, after their misuse at a somber community event for Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2015.
Publication of joint ICD submission
Mauro Cabral of GATE has announced, via the Intersex Day project, publication of a 2014 community submission to the World Health Organization on reform of the International Classification of Diseases.