Australian researcher and InterAction board director, Dr Aileen Kennedy has written this article, published in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
A new report by Equality Australia in collaboration with InterAction, offering rare insight into the medical interventions currently being performed on intersex children in Australia, and the rationales driving these decisions.
Danielle Arlanda Harris writes for The Conversation: "It is never too early to teach them about body autonomy, normalise safety, and model trustworthiness in relationships."
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.
Thank you to ILGA World for recording and releasing this podcast, in their series "Making Rainbow Waves". It records intersex advocates who were in Geneva in September 2025 for the first-ever UN Human Rights Council session on intersex human rights.
InterAction for Health and Human Rights congratulates OII Europe, ILGA Europe and the Council of Europe on their Recommendation on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons- a significant and historic milestone for intersex human rights across Europe.
This briefing on intersex rights, recognition and reform in Western Australia was commissioned by the Western Australian Department of Communities. The lead author is Toby Whittington.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has published a report on discriminatory laws and policies, acts of violence and harmful practices against intersex persons.
This children's book by Margie McCumstie (author) and Sandi D Duruet (illustrator) helps children understand that being intersex is natural and completely ok.
Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, writes on the introduction of mandatory genetic testing of women athletes by World Athletics.
Congratulations to the organising team for a hugely successful intersex studies conference, held at Dublin City University, 9-10 June 2025. The event also launched a new book by Surya Monro, Adeline Berry, Morgan Carpenter, Daniela Crocetti and Sean Saifa Wall.
17 Jun 2025
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