Despite considerable achievements, the sustainability of the intersex movement is threatened by lack of funding for our organisations. In response, the global intersex movement has issued this statement launching a Global Solidarity Campaign to fund intersex futures.
Join Rainbow Giving Australia, InterAction for Health and Human Rights, and Snow Foundation for a powerful conversation on one of the most overlooked, misunderstood and underfunded areas of health and human rights in Australia today: the intersex movement.
We congratulate the Albanese Labor government on its re-election. We look forward to continuing to work with the government, to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people with innate variations of sex characteristics, to build on key actions from the 47th Parliament, and to deepen engagement across portfolios.
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.
IHRA has recently made a first pre-budget submission to Treasury, proposing the funding of a health service for people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
According to recent Australian research, registered "LGBTIQ+ organisations receive just 5 cents out of every $100 received by Australian charities". Resourcing for intersex-led and intersex-focused work is a fraction of that fraction.
IHRA is pleased to share our call for action by the new government. It includes calls for action to promote legislative reform, resource peer support and advocacy, reform medical codes and provide redress.
Intersex Human Rights Australia and Intersex Peer Support Australia invite you to support the work of our organisations and realise the vision of the Darlington Statement.
The Darlington Statement is a joint consensus statement by Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand intersex organisations and independent advocates, agreed in March 2017. It sets out the priorities and calls to action by the intersex human rights movement in our countries.
A global donor forum held in Washington DC in November 2014 marks a shift in intersex inclusion in work on issues affecting sexual minorities. Importantly, in both an Australian and international context, the civil society statement from the conference calls for "deliberate discussion", "in each region and country" as to what this means.
OII Australia has no government funding, and no philanthropic or project support for our advocacy work. We depend on the commitment of our members, and support from the broader community, to enable us to work.
29 May 2014
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Our Australian staff and board live and work on First Nations lands. We recognise that sovereignty over this land was never ceded and that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the continued connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to land, waterways and community and pay our respects to all First Nations people.
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