On 2 Dec 2025, Equality Australia launched The Missing Voice, a groundbreaking report that shines a light on the medical interventions still being performed on intersex children in Australia.
Today, the Victorian Government took a historic step toward protecting the rights of children with innate variations of sex characteristics, introducing legislation that will prevent unnecessary medical interventions without the individual’s free and informed consent.
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.
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.
Watch a historic milestone with presentation of a first ever intersex rights report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Updated with details of events on 15 September.
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.
A submission to the Law Reform Commission of NSW on reform of the Anti-Discrimination Act (NSW). It recommends protections on grounds of sex characteristics.
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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