INACCURACY seems to be the byword when the mainstream media reports on intersex, but at least this news item by a German TV channel on the recent Transgender und Intersex in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft conference in Dresden concentrates on intersex despite reporting it as a transgender conference.

The report features IVIM/OII Germany’s Ins A. Kromminga and mentions Australia’s recent passport policy allowing those who want it to have an X in the sex field of their passports.

Michael Wunder of Deutscher Ethikrat states that “Intersexualitaet ist kein krankheit” – intersex is not sickness – in a segment to do with the medical pathologization of intersex in Germany. In other words, intersex is not a “condition” or a “disease” or an “illness” or a “disorder” to be “cured”.