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Intersex and ISGD: yet another attempt to co-opt intersex?

The new catch-all term being heavily promoted in Sydney, "Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse", comes across as yet another variation
21 May 2011
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Anti-discrimination

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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Legal

NSW legal rejection of "sex non-specific": implications for intersex Victorians

On Friday 13 May 2011 a decision on the case of Norrie v Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages [2011]
14 May 2011
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Anti-discrimination

Australian Human Rights Commission releases 2011 consultation report

The Australian Human Rights Commission 2011 consultative report Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination is a landmark
5 May 2014
an open eye
Anti-discrimination

Australian Human Rights Commission consultation: terminology

Dear all Thank you very much for your contribution to the Commission’s brief consultation regarding the terminology used to describe
5 May 2014
an open eye with eyelashes above it
Legal

Sydney Morning Herald on the recognition of non-specific gender

The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday carried a story by Steve Dow on Norrie's campaign for "legal recognition as a person
5 May 2014
a newspaper
Health and Medical Ethics

WPATH disorders intersex while depathologizing transgender

From the 'Response of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to the Proposed DSM 5 Criteria for Gender Incongruence':
27 May 2010
Hospital - stock photo courtesy of Freepik
Sex and Gender Classifications

Star Observer: Norrie may well be the first of their kind

Gina Wilson is quoted in this article about the impact of a third sex classification on intersex infants and children:
5 May 2014
a newspaper
Sex and Gender Classifications

Sydney Morning Herald: "Sexless in the city: a gender revolution"

Trans person Norrie is in the news: A spokeswoman for the Attorney-General's department confirmed it was the first such certificate
2 May 2014
a newspaper
47XXY Klinefelter syndrome

Chris Somers xxy: Sexing the difference in gender and the anomalies of interpretation

Most of the issues presented today were initially given in 1999 at the 14th Annual Australian and New Zealand Society
8 Feb 2010
Chris Somers XXY, self portrait, 2013
Sex and Gender Classifications

On intersex birth registrations

Intersex people in several Australian are able to obtain an administrative correction of intersex birth registrations, including correction to alternative male, female, or (in some cases) blank designation.
13 Nov 2009
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Sex and Gender Classifications

Signs of reform in the Australian Passport Office

We are pleased to report that the Australian Passport Office, in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has made
2 May 2014
two passports with a globe symbol on the front
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