People with innate variations of sex characteristics use different words to talk about themselves. You can use the language you are most comfortable with. This page opens a page in the InterLink resource hub.
Hans Lindahl, formerly of interACT, presents here one of best discussions about how to write intersex characters in fiction. We highly commend this video, and other work by Hans.
IHRA is currently engaged on a significant project to provide policy advice and develop resources for the Victorian Department of Health. The first step in the resources component of this project is this review of existing resources.
We know these ideas are not the only representations of what it means to be intersex in gender diverse spaces, and we are glad of the friendship and allyship of so many trans and gender diverse people and organisations - but we have to tackle misconceptions.
The submission calls for legislative oversight, criminal penalties for non-compliance, lifetime standards of care and improved access to psychosocial and peer support.
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.
IHRA has made a submission to the Australian Bureau of Statistics on the sex and gender standards in relation to the 2021 Census, and on collecting information on people with intersex variations.
An important and long-awaited supplement to the Yogyakarta Principles is published today. The Principles apply international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation, gender identity, and now also gender expression and sex characteristics.
We announce that the 2015 survey of people born with atypical sex characteristics has now been published. This survey was an independent research project led by Dr Tiffany Jones.
Mauro Cabral of GATE has announced, via the Intersex Day project, publication of a 2014 community submission to the World Health Organization on reform of the International Classification of Diseases.
25 Oct 2015
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