Europe

Dr Michela Balocchi speaks at V Congresso dell’Associazione Radicale Certi Diritti in Milano – ‘Intersex e diritti negati: quali battaglie comuni con il movimento GLBT(E) in Italia?’, 2-4 December 2011

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DR Michela Balocchi is an activist and ally of intersex people in Italy. She recently gave a presentation on the treatment of intersex people in Italy and the similarities in the struggles for fundamental human rights between intersex people and LGBT people. Note: This illustrated audio recording is in Italian.

Conference flyer, Transgender and Intersex in the Arts, Science and Society, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 18-20 January 2012

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WE are pleased to note that at least two known intersex artists have been added to the program for the conference on Transgender and Intersex in the Arts, Science and Society, to be held at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany, on 18-20 January 2012. Thanks to Professor Doctor Stefan Horlacher for including OII members Ins…
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Non-consensual surgery on intersex infants in in Russia

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HERE’S a report on surgery on intersex newborns and infants in the Russian city of Rostov. A 2-year-old boy underwent a sex change operation in the southern Russian city of Rostov after doctors discovered that he had been born with a set of female chromosomes and reproductive organs, Life News reported on Tuesday. Oksana S,…
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Intersex Conference by Amnesty International Belgique Francophone on 19th November in Brussels

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THE Francophone branch of Amnesty International in Belgium is staging a one-day conference on intersex at the Hotel de Ville, Grand Place in Brussels on Saturday, 19th November 2011. Presentations include the following… The ‘I’ of intersex: an introduction, by Dr Joz Motmans of the Policy Research Centre on Equal Opportunities, University of Antwerp: Introductory…
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Michela Balocchi writes on the erasure of intersex in the Italian media

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ITALIAN intersex ally Michela Balocchi has written about the response in the Italian mainstream press to Australia’s new intersex-inclusive passport regulations. In effect, as she points out, the media in Italy have erased the word intersex from their reporting and are suggesting that this is a transgender-oriented reform. External link: italialaica.it – Femmina, maschio o…
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UK petition against cosmetic assignment surgery upon intersex infants

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AN e-petition against the widespread practice of intersex genital mutilation (IGM) aka intersex assignment surgery amongst other euphemisms has been posted by Miss Anne Carter under the UK Government’s Directgov e-petitions scheme. Surgery on intersex infants and children is mutilation and in breach of the child’s human rights under UN Children’s Charter and puts the…
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