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.
Caster Semenya, born a woman, raised a woman, who has demonstrated nothing but hard-earned excellence in her field is harmed by irresponsible reporting.
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.
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.
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.
In the wake of some objectifying news coverage of intersex bodies in Australian, UK and international media, Phoebe Hart of the AISSGA writes an important piece on "My intersex body: more than an object of fascination or repulsion to be ‘fixed’" in the UK Independent newspaper.
We congratulate Mauro Cabral on his receipt of an inaugural human rights award, from the Equal Rights Trust in London. For an Argentinian activist, from the global South, to receive recognition in an English-speaking country is also very welcome. More than this, Mauro's work on depathologisation deserves this recognition.
Numerous studies were presented by Australian teams to the I-DSD conference in Belgium this month, including several from the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Two reports stand out, despite being listed in separate parts of the Conference Abstracts document.
A physical cause is not necessary to obtain social or familial validation.
18 Aug 2014
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