Border Challenges and Solidarity
For those travelling to the US, it’s crucial to dedicate extra time to ensure your documents are accurate and in order. Proceed with caution to minimise potential difficulties.
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Submission to World Athletics on proposals impacting some women athletes with intersex variations
World Athletics continually relitigates its regulations impacting some elite women athletes with innate variations of sex characteristics, in the context of a moral panic about participation in sport by a trans people, different population.
Celebrating World Day of Social Justice
Today is World Day of Social Justice and we are celebrating by highlighting the important work done by our friends and allies in the social justice space. We acknowledge the work of these fine organisations and are proud to take a moment to shine a light on the awesome work they do!
Trump’s new policy on “gender ideology” and “biological truth”
Trump’s Executive Order on “gender ideology” and “biological truth” uses a gamete-based definition of sex, which is not directly tested for at birth, and which will have adverse consequences for many intersex people.
Human Rights Day 2024: “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now”
As we commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, 2024, let us embrace the truth that intersex rights are human rights.
The State of Intersex Organising report, 2024
The third edition of “The State of Intersex Organizing” has been released today. It identifies significant gaps in funding and resources, with an impact on the work of the intersex movement.
Revisiting Sex Classification in Athletics: Insights from Dr. Morgan Carpenter
In this article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Dr Carpenter asks if it is ever acceptable to reclassify someone out of their sex determined and classified at birth without their consent. He proposes that women athletes should always be able to compete, without preconditions, in their birth-observed, birth-assigned sex.
Peace and Freedom cannot be separated/ International Day of Non-Violence
On this International Day of Non-Violence, we stand in solidarity with peoples experiencing genocide, carpet bombing, and occupation. From Palestine and Lebanon to Congo, Sudan, and Ukraine, our world is acutely aware of the pervasive violence.
Global bioethics statement calls for end to medically unnecessary intersex surgeries
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.
Systematic review identifies concerns with current medical rationales for “sex-normalising” interventions in childhood
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.
World Athletics Continues to Discriminate Against Athletes with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics
As the Paris Olympics unfolds, the athletics competition has commenced. However, there are at least two athletes who won’t be participating because their natural bodies do not meet World Athletics’ standards.
End the hate, let women compete
We need to speak up about hateful rhetoric about women Olympic athletes, competing in Paris, who are purported to have innate variations of sex characteristics.