Morgan Carpenter, designer of the yellow and purple intersex flag, is interviewed in this piece to mark 10 years of the Intersex Human Rights Fund at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.
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 Australian Journal of Human Rights has published this open access commentary by Morgan Carpenter on reforms to protect people with innate variations of sex characteristics from harmful medical practices in the ACT.
This paper, by Morgan Carpenter to inform the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, outlines the contradictory ways Australian data construct intersex and DSD.
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.
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".
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.
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.
On 22 February 2017, co-executive director Morgan Carpenter spoke at an Australian Human Rights Commission RightsTalk, on "Creating Equality – The Role of Law in Protecting SOGII Rights".
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