ABS Data released: Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics
On 19 December 2024, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a first estimate on the size and characteristics of LGBTI+ populations in Australia.
Third party reports and briefings (page 1 of 7)
Third party reports and briefings on issues affecting people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
We welcome the launch of the National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ People
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.
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.
The context and goals of the intersex movement in Australia
Social Sciences journal has published a peer-reviewed perspective on the context and goals of the intersex movement in Australia, by Dr Morgan Carpenter.
Protecting people with intersex variations: a new benchmark in the ACT
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.
Constructions of intersex and DSD in Australian data
This paper, by Morgan Carpenter to inform the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, outlines the contradictory ways Australian data construct intersex and DSD.
Health and wellbeing
An introduction to the health and well-being of people with innate variations of sex characteristics, with links to third party resources published by the Australian Human Rights Commission and clinical bodies.
AHRC: Ensure health and bodily integrity for people with intersex variations
Intersex Human Rights Australia and Equality Australia have today welcomed the findings of a landmark report by the Australian Human Rights Commission on protecting the human rights of intersex people in medical settings.
ABS Sex, Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics and Sexual Orientation Standard
We welcome publication of a new Sex, Gender, Variations of Sex Characteristics and Sexual Orientation Standard by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This replaces an earlier Sex and Gender Standard. The new Standard facilitates the meaningful and respectful collection of data on people with intersex variations (‘variations of sex characteristics’).
Carpenter: intersex people and the Yogyakarta Principles
Morgan Carpenter writes in capacity as a member of the drafting committee and a signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10, outlining the significance of the Principles to intersex people.
Bioethicists and paediatric surgeons debate intersex medical interventions
A debate recorded at the 2020 Melbourne Medical Student Conference between paediatric surgeons John Hutson and Sonia Grover, and bioethicists Morgan Carpenter (IHRA) and Clare Delany.