Quick Exit
InterAction
Menu

Personal Comment

Personal opinions

Topics

Topics

Locations

Locations

Sort By...

Sort By...
Health and Medical Ethics

Fourth day of intersex: Medicine

On the Fourth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and its uneasy relationship with medicine. What is
29 Oct 2011
OII Australia founding president, Gina Wilson
Health and Medical Ethics

Third day of intersex: Infant genital surgeries

On the Third Day of Intersex we draw your attention to Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM). What is intersex? Intersex people
28 Oct 2011
OII Australia founding president, Gina Wilson
Anti-discrimination

Second day of intersex: Human rights

On the Second Day of Intersex we draw your attention to the complete lack of rights for intersex people. For
27 Oct 2011
OII Australia founding president, Gina Wilson
Anti-discrimination

Chris Somers: "The fear amongst medicine and its allies of intersex people potentially gaining human rights"

There appears to be an abject fear of allowing intersex people any rights whatsoever. More specifically, an alarming number of
30 Sep 2011
Chris Somers XXY, self portrait, 2013
47XXY Klinefelter syndrome

Michael Noble: Representations of Klinefelter Syndrome

Michael Noble wrote this paper on representations of his trait, Klinefelter Syndrome (47,XXY) in 2003, and revised it in 2010. This is the revised version.
12 May 2010
Michael Noble
Personal Comment

Gina Wilson: Sexism is the Issue with the IOC

THE issue with the IOC - International Olympic Committee - is sexism and every woman should be outraged. Why? Physical
5 Mar 2010
OII Australia founding president, Gina Wilson
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)

Patient advocate questions use of Dexamethasone on moms and their unborn babies

Patient advocate Janet Green, a woman born with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), voices concern about high risk in utero steroid treatment being given to pregnant women.
11 Feb 2010
Janet Green
47XXY Klinefelter syndrome

Chris Somers xxy, Tracy Reibel and David Whyatt: Intersex and androgyny and implications for provision of primary health care

Chris Somers xxy (vice-president of OII Australia) and colleagues present an analysis of intersex issues for primary healthcare providers. Chris
8 Feb 2010
Chris Somers XXY, self portrait, 2013
47XXY Klinefelter syndrome

Chris Somers xxy: Sexing the difference in gender and the anomalies of interpretation

Most of the issues presented today were initially given in 1999 at the 14th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society
8 Feb 2010
Chris Somers XXY, self portrait, 2013
Personal Comment

Patricia Nell Warren: "The IOC and gender inquisition"

Opinion piece by Patricia Nell Warren, reprinted with kind permission from the author. While the IAAF has been backing and
5 May 2014
quotation by Warren
Personal Comment

Gina Wilson: "Ms Semenya, I Never Knew You"

The events surrounding the gold medal run by Ms Caster Semenya in August of this year have created a perfect
18 Sep 2009
OII Australia founding president, Gina Wilson
Personal Comment

Karin: "Erasing the fact of natural variations in sex with John Money's gender theories"

What is it about the word SEX that so upsets so many people that they feel compelled to substitute it
13 Aug 2009
Photo by Karin
Acknowledgement of Country
Our Australian staff and board live and work on First Nations lands. We recognise that sovereignty over this land was never ceded and that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the continued connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land, waterways and community and pay our respects to all First Nations people.
cross