On 2 Dec 2025, Equality Australia launched The Missing Voice, a groundbreaking report that shines a light on the medical interventions still being performed on intersex children in Australia.
On a joyful evening at the Victorian Pride Centre in St Kilda, Melbourne (Naarm), Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA) celebrated its 40th birthday — marking four decades as the longest running intersex organisation in Australia, and possibly the world.
On Kaurna Country in Adelaide, South Australia, the Better Together conference was held on Friday 31 October and Saturday 1 November 2025. This annual gathering of LGBTIQA+ communities, allies, and advocates brought together diverse voices to share knowledge, celebrate achievements, and confront challenges.
Here's your guide to what's happening for Intersex Awareness in October 2025. We hope you find some events you would like to attend and enjoy the celebrations!
The inaugural Carswell Forum 2025 was held on September 19 in Brisbane aimed at fostering collaboration among community members, activists, and government representatives.
From 15–18 September, QC hosted a transformative week of professional development and community capacity building: Common Ground. InterLink and InterAction representatives attended this conference together with other passionate advocates, community leaders, and health professionals to explore the themes of belonging and justice.
A recording of a 2019 lecture by co-executive director Morgan Carpenter at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, on "medical and legal contradictions on the meaning and needs of intersex people".
This is a statement by board member Candice Cody at a screening of Arianna, as part of the Sydney Queer Film Festival, 2017.
1 Mar 2017
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