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Protest at conference promoting Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) at The Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, 17 – 19 September 2011

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INTERSEX people and organizations including Organisation Intersex International (OII) call on intersex activists and friends to protest outside the Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, Saturday 17th to Monday 19th September 2011.  The College is the venue for the IV World Congress on Hypospadias and Disorders of Sex Development which promotes…
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Intersex – the last great worldwide struggle for fundamental human rights

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MEDIA RELEASE 5 September 2011 Brussels, Belgium FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL INTERSEX FORUM The world’s 1st International Intersex Organising Forum took place in Brussels between 3-5 September 2011. The historic event brought together 24 activists representing 17 intersex organisations from all continents. Around the world intersex individuals are being subjected to inhumane and degrading altering surgical…
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Y. Gavriel Ansara & Peter Hegarty: Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

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Y. Gavriel Ansara & Peter Hegarty: Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

INTERSEX activist, psychologist and academic Y. Gavriel Ansara has co-written a ground-breaking work on cisgenderism and its adverse effects on nonconforming children.  Mental health professionals are more cisgenderist than other authors. Articles by members of an ‘invisible college’ structured around the most prolific author in this area are more cisgenderist and impactful than other articles….
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Richard Muasya in Kenya: Lifelong intersex exclusion leads to the inevitable, exclusion from the means to live, then jail, rape, violence and yet more exclusion

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OII-Kenya affiliate lawyer John Chigiti represents a number of intersex Kenyans in matters of the law in that country, despite statements made during the recent trial of Kenyan intersex person Richard Muasya that there are no intersex people in Kenya and therefore no need to include them in the legislation of that nation. Mr Muasya’s…
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Australian Federal Parliamentary Friends group includes intersex

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OII Australia warmly welcomes the formation of a parliamentary friends group for LGBTIQ. This is the first parliamentary friends group anywhere that we are aware of that is intersex-inclusive. The formation of this group coincides with recent intersex-inclusive statements from the European Parliament, also a world first and a substantial step towards intersex recognition. OII…
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Intersex documentary “Intersexion” to screen in New Zealand

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Intersex documentary “Intersexion” to screen in New Zealand

A number of intersex people around the world were interviewed by New Zealand film director Grant Lahood for his documentary Intersexion including a member of OII Australia, Gina Wilson. We welcome TV One’s commissioning of this film and are grateful to Mr Lahood for creating it in collaboration with Mani Mitchell of Wellington, New Zealand….
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