Author: Sophia Siedlberg, OII-UK TO understand the controversy surrounding Dr Dix Poppas and Dr Maria New, you have to look at what they are doing at face value and then ask yourself how what they are doing helps patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). Dr New proposes the use of dexamethasone to “ensure” that a…
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The Standard: Court to rule on intersex convict in November
Republished from an article by Judy Ogutu: AN intersex convict will have to wait until November when he is likely to know his fate in a case he has lodged seeking for legal recognition. A Constitutional court said on Wednesday it will on November 9, deliver its verdict on the suit filed by Mr Richard…
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human rights first: Human Rights Defenders Combating Discrimination to Receive 2010 Honors
HUMAN Rights First will present its 2010 Human Rights Award to a renowned Hungarian advocate for the rights of the Roma people in Europe and a Ugandan activist on the front lines of defeating a draconian anti-homosexuality bill there. The group will honor this year’s recipients, Julius Kaggwa and Viktória Mohácsi, at its annual award…
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People’s Daily Online: Male sex chromosome found in Guangdong girl’s body
XIAODI, a teenage girl who was found to be physiologically a boy at age 15, received a sex change operation at Zhujiang Hospital in Guangdong yesterday. Xiaodi has white skin, a soft voice and a beautiful appearance. It’s hard to image she is a boy. Her father said Xiaodi’s genitalia were not so clear and…
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The Himalayan Times: Project for LGBTI rights
MINISTRY of Women, Children and Social Welfare (MoWCSW) and Blue Diamond Society (BDS), an NGO for third gender rights, are jointly working to amend legal provisions to ensure equal rights for the third gender. Sher Jung Karki, under secretary at the ministry said that third genders suffer violence, harassment, discrimination, exclusion and stigma. After the…
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The Huffington Post: What it Says About Us When a 17-Month-Old Boy Is Beaten to Death for “Acting Like a Girl”
AT approximately 8:25 p.m. last Sunday night, the New York State Police on Long Island logged a 911 call about a toddler in cardiac arrest. The boy, 17-month-old Roy Jones, was rushed from the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, N.Y. to Southampton Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. According to authorities, the…
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Coastweek.com: Kenya’s Constitutional Court urged to create new law for ‘third gender’ convicts
IN what is a land mark application in a Kenya court, an inter-sex death row convict has urged a Constitutional Court to create a law that will accommodate his gender. Through his lawyer John Chingiti, Richard Muasya yesterday urged judges Hannah Okengu, George Dulu and Ruth Sitati to enact a law that will embrace hermaphrodites….
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The Guardian: Caster Semenya may return to track this month after IAAF clearance
SPECULATION as to what that “process” might have entailed has been rife, with unconfirmed reports suggesting that rather than waiting for the results of a gender verification test – as had been claimed by the IAAF – she has been undergoing hormone-based treatment for what is widely accepted to be an intersex condition. As Pierre…
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