UN OHCHR paper on human rights violations against intersex people
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published an essential new background note on human rights violations against intersex people.
Third party reports and briefings (page 2 of 7)
Third party reports and briefings on issues affecting people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
UN Treaty Body statements on intersex human rights in Australia
Multiple UN Treaty Body committees have issued concluding observations to Australia on the rights of children with intersex variations.
New resources for kids, youth and parents
Our friends at Reach Out Australia and Kids Helpline are updating their resources for intersex youth and parents of intersex youth. We have assisted in the creation of these resources and we strongly commend them.
NSW Judicial Commission report on equality before the law
Our societies have accepted a binary construct between male and female which does not reflect Nature and the enormous variety of possible sexes which overlap one another in various gradations on a spectrum.
O&G Magazine: “What do intersex people need from doctors?” and more
O&G Magazine, the magazine of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) published a special issue on LGBTQIA people for December 2018. It contains articles on intersex people by Morgan Carpenter and Dr Jenny Beale, and relevant content by Dr Kimberley Ivory, Dr Elizabeth Kerekere and others.
Morgan Carpenter: “Clinical self-regulation has failed”
On invitation, Morgan Carpenter has written a post for the journal Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.
Tony Briffa: “The Hippocratic Oath, Western Medicine, and the Children of Hermes and Aphrodite”
Co-executive director Tony Briffa writes on being intersex and Maltese Australian in the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An anthology of Australian, in a new anthology, with an extract in Archer Magazine.
Morgan Carpenter: new peer-reviewed papers on medical “normalisation” and legal “othering”
We are pleased to share a freely accessible peer-reviewed journal article by co-executive director Morgan Carpenter, on intersex health and human rights, and an associated book chapter.
New paper by Karkazis and Carpenter: IAAF regulations create “impossible choices”
In a new and freely accessible joint paper in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Katrina Karkazis and Morgan Carpenter detail the choices and harms involved in unnecessary regulations affecting the participation of some women with intersex variations in elite sport.
Carpenter: “Intersex variations, human rights, and the International Classification of Diseases”
This open access paper published by Harvard’s Health and Human Rights Journal highlights how international clinical classifications facilitate or specify practices that violate the human rights of intersex people. It also provides some analysis of a recent Family Court case, analysed from a slightly different perspective to recent papers in Bioethical Inquiry.
The Yogyakarta Principles plus 10
An important and long-awaited supplement to the Yogyakarta Principles is published today. The Principles apply international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation, gender identity, and now also gender expression and sex characteristics.
UN Human Rights Committee calls for recognition of right to bodily integrity
The UN Human Rights Committee has made a powerful call to recognise the human rights of intersex people, including through ending irreversible medical treatment that is not absolutely medically necessary, and that takes place before a child can comprehend and provide informed consent.