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Our resource collection includes our briefings and policy reports, along with calls to action, public submissions, community declarations, fact sheets, personal stories, and information about selected third party resources.

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Intersex and the Sex Files: good for trans*, bad for intersex

OII Australia supports trans people in their call for human rights, in the same way we support all LGBTI peoples
15 May 2011
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Public Submissions

Letter to Department of Health and Ageing on LGBTI exclusion from draft standards of residential aged care

A letter in response to recently released draft standards of residential aged care.
29 Apr 2011
Parliament
Public Submissions

Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission on discrimination against LGBTI people

Submission calling for legal reform to protect people with intersex conditions from genetic discrimination, discrimination in sport, identity recognition, and freedom from unnecessary surgical interventions.
26 Nov 2010
The old AISSGA logos: a girl performing a handstand in front of the letters X and Y, and an outline of an orchid
Third-Party Resources

The Yogyakarta Principles and intersex people

The 2006 Yogyakarta Principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity are an important development, primarily furthering the rights of LGBT people, but with a crucial principle of particular interest to intersex people.
10 Nov 2010
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Personal Stories

Movie: Orchids, My Intersex Adventure

Phoebe Hart's autobiographical Australian documentary is highly recommended!
26 Oct 2010
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Third-Party Resources

Koyama and Weasel: “Teaching intersex issues”

This report, on the ways that intersex is used by educators, was published in June 2001. The analysis and recommendations are as valid today as they were then.
16 Oct 2010
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Personal Stories

Tiger Howard Devore on Oprah, 1984

Tiger Howard Devore was the first intersex person to be public on television. Here he talks on Oprah in 1984.
9 Sep 2010
Tiger Howard Devore
Personal Stories

Michael Noble: I am me and I am OK

Michael Noble wrote and presented this biography at the Gay and Lesbian Feast Festival, Adelaide, South Australia in 2002. He subsequently revised it for publication here.
19 Jul 2010
Michael Noble
Personal Stories

The Age on Tony Briffa: "Voices of the 'other' that need to be heard"

Tony Briffa is interviewed in The Age: Hobsons Bay deputy mayor Tony Briffa is thought to be the only person
10 Jul 2010
Tony Briffa, leaning against a vintage car
Briefings and Reports

Position statement on genital cutting

Intersex refers to atypical internal and/or external anatomical sexual characteristics, where features usually regarded as male or female may be mixed to some degree. This is a naturally occurring variation in humans.
30 Mar 2010
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Third-Party Resources

Katrina Karkazis: “Fixing Sex”

Recommended reading: a historical analysis of the treatment of intersex people, together with an analysis of both current medical practice and the impact on intersex people and our families.
29 Jan 2010
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Public Submissions

Submission to the Federal Marriage Equality Amendment Bill Committee

A formal submission supporting the campaign for marriage equality.
28 Aug 2009
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