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Health and Wellbeing

Factsheets for youth and teens

These InterLink resources aim to help youth to have your voice heard and make choices about your body, health, and information, no matter your age, so you can feel confident and in control.
25 May 2025
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Consent

Consent and privacy in peer relationships

This information can help you decide when and how to talk about your body with others, and understand the difference between secrecy and privacy. It opens a page in the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Consent

Making your own health choices

This resource talks about ways you can make your own choices when it comes to your body and health. It is for young people who have bodies that are a bit different. This page opens a resource in the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Consent

Understanding your feelings about seeing doctors

Sometimes getting medical care can give you big feelings. This InterLink fact sheet helps you to understand your feelings, and finding support. This page is part of the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Disclosure

For youth: talking with your doctor

This fact sheet is intended for young people with intersex variations/innate variation of sex characteristics. It may also be helpful for family members and carers. This page links to a resource on the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Community

Talking about intersex with friends

When you learn that you have an intersex variation it can be very difficult to find support. Many people don't know about intersex variations, or how to have a supportive conversation about them. This page links to a resource in the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Health and Wellbeing

Transition to adult medical services

Paediatric services are designed to support the health of children and adolescents. At age 18, people are expected to move on to using adult services. This page links to a resource in the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Disclosure

For youth: talking about intersex at school or work

This fact sheet is intended for young people with intersex variations/innate variation of sex characteristics. It may also be helpful for family members and carers. This page links to a resource in the InterLink resource hub.
25 May 2025
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Anti-discrimination

Celebrating World Day of Social Justice

Today is World Day of Social Justice and we are celebrating by highlighting the important work done by our friends and allies in the social justice space. We acknowledge the work of these fine organisations and are proud to take a moment to shine a light on the awesome work they do!
20 Feb 2025
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Ageing

Historic medical research grant to improve intersex people’s health and wellbeing

Announcement: A multi-institutional research team has been awarded $5M in federal government funding to help create a safer and better future for people with innate variations in sex characteristics (IVSC).
4 Apr 2024
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Anti-discrimination

Conference and journal special issue: "Centring intersex, local and global dimensions", Online

IHRA was proud to support this international intersex studies conference, held online on 20-23 February 2023.
19 Feb 2024
Youth

YOUth&I issue 2 launch

On 2 December 2021, issue 2 of YOUth&I intersex youth anthology launched. Watch the event, with stories and poetry here.
9 Nov 2021
Detail from the cover of YOUth&I issue 2
Acknowledgement of Country
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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