OII Australia testifies to Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation

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Australian intersex organisations OII Australia and AISSGA, together with the National LGBTI Health Alliance, participated in the country’s federal Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation. The inquiry primarily focuses on people with disability, but the terms of reference specifically include the sterilisation and sexual health of intersex people as well. The oral hearing on…
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Equal Rights Trust, UK publishes testimony by OII Australia president

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OII Australia’s President Gina Wilson provides an excellently worded testimony on behalf of intersex people to the Equal Rights Trust, a UK Human Rights think tank and advocacy organization.  http://oii.org.au/22134/equal-rights-trust-testimony/ As Wilson says, “Most discrimination against intersex people is not as a consequence of us identifying as intersex, but on the basis of our physical appearance…
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Calling a spade a spade; intersex is intersex

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  A few days ago, I received an excerpt from an article-in-progress by a law professor that stated that intersex is increasingly included as a subcategory of transgender.  I’m grateful that she contacted me for feedback, and confident that she’ll edit this out, but I’m shocked at how much people continue to obfuscate intersex.  Why…
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Second International Intersex Forum concludes

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The second International Intersex Forum has just concluded in Stockholm, with an affirmation of seven key demands and priorities for intersex people. Kindly organised by the European branch of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, ILGA Europe, the event was only the second ever international intersex gathering. Gina Wilson from OII Australia…
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OII-Europe: First ever European Intersex NGO founded

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OII Europe (Organisation Intersex International Europe) was founded on Human Rights day at the 2nd International Intersex Forum in Stockholm. Find below a media release.   *********************** MEDIA RELEASE ********************* Tuesday 12 December 2012 Stockholm First ever European Intersex NGO founded.  OII Europe sets up work on Intersex Human Right Issues. OII Europe, Europe’s first…
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Open Letter on Intersex to the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights

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Hida Viloria, the global chair of Organisational Intersex International, has co-ordinated an open letter to Her Excellency Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The letter was drafted at the second ILGA Intersex Forum, currently taking place in Stockholm. Co-signatories to the letter come from across the world, including Europe, Latin and North…
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