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Text reads "Congratulations to Tony Briffa. Winner of the President's Award at the Thorne Harbour Health Awards 2024. Image is of Tony Briffa, wearing a yellow gingham blouse and blue/grey jacket.

Congratulations Tony Briffa!

Congratulations to Tony Briffa! Winner of the President’s Award at the Thorne Harbour Health Awards 2024.

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Intersex Solidarity Day 2024

Today encourages conversations about the need for visibility, respect, and equality for intersex individuals. By fostering understanding and solidarity, we can help create a more inclusive society.

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Intersex Awareness Day 2024 & Winner of The Darling

Reflecting on Intersex Awareness Day 2024, it was a vibrant and meaningful celebration filled with various activities that highlighted the importance of intersex rights and community. Throughout the week, a series of events were organised to foster understanding, support, advocacy… and to celebrate!

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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.

Text reads "New Journal Article by Dr Morgan Carpenter published in the American Journal of Bioethics asks the questions: Is It Ever OK to Reclassify Someone Out of Their Birth-Observed Sex Without Personal Consent? How Do We Manage Competing Methods of Classifying Sex?" There are two images- 1. Current cover of The American Journal of Bioethics- black with a white line drawing of a hand switching on a lamp. 2. Picture of Dr Morgan Carpenter speaking at a microphone. He has short brown hair and wears a white shirt, light brown jacket and glasses.

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.

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Intersex people and the Australian census

The 2016 and 2021 censuses sought to capture data on people with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex variations/differences of sex development), but they did so in ways that were harmful and that did not produce reliable, meaningful data. We have an opportunity to do better in the 2026 census.