For an introduction to these issues, see our page on bodily integrity
We congratulate the Albanese Labor government on its re-election. We look forward to continuing to work with the government, to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to build on key actions from the 47th Parliament, and to deepen engagement across portfolios.
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.
As we commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, 2024, let us embrace the truth that intersex rights are human rights.
The American Journal of Bioethics has published a global bioethics consensus statement, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and with contributions made by more than 150 international experts from more than 24 countries, including IHRA’s own Dr Morgan Carpenter and Mauro Cabral Grinspan.
IHRA celebrates today the publication of the groundbreaking article titled “Perspectives on conducting “sex-normalising” intersex surgeries conducted in infancy: a systematic review”. The independent research team comprises staff of the World Health Organization (WHO) and interns.
Our submission on the development of the Queensland Trauma Strategy, focusing on intersex-specific experiences of trauma, and the omission of discussion of these experiences from materials produced on trauma in LGBTQIA+SB populations.
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 has recently made a first pre-budget submission to Treasury, proposing the funding of a health service for 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!
The Australian Journal of Human Rights has published this peer-reviewed commentary by Morgan Carpenter on reforms to protect people with innate variations of sex characteristics from harmful medical practices in the ACT.