ON the Tenth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to the intersex aged, to intersex aged care and how that affects intersex lives. What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought to be typical of both male and female at once….
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Intersex Medical Experimentation: The Fourteen Days of Intersex
ON the Seventh Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex medical experimentation – medicine’s propensity for experimenting on the bodies of intersex people. What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought to be typical of both male and female at once. That…
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Intersex Hobsons Bay Mayor Tony Briffa interviewed by Word for Word on Joy 94.9 radio
Making the invisible visible: intersex rights are human rights which should be protected under new equality laws
Author: Gina Wilson Date first published: February 3, 2012 Location first published: Human Rights Law Centre, Equality Law Reform Project INTERSEX rights are human rights. Although this statement might seem self-evident, the rights and experiences of intersex people have been consistently ignored and rendered invisible across the world and throughout history. In the run up to…
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Creating a third gender creates a whole new set of problems and oppressions
A number of erstwhile allies of intersex people suppose that intersex people want the legislative creation of a third gender or a third sex. Sex – male and female under the sex binary belief system, and gender – man and woman under the gender binary belief system, are two very different though related things. The reality is…
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What every intersex person knows but is news to others – intersex people are neglected
PSYCHOLOGIST Paul Martin has written a short article about the widespread neglect of intersex: Our communities rarely talk about or even understand intersex which is a part of our ‘LGBTI’, so it may as well stand for ‘invisible’. There are more intersex people out there than you think -the statistics show that almost 2% of…
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Sexing the Difference in Gender and the Anomalies of Interpretation
Author: Chris Somers xxy Date of first publication at OII Australia.com: 8 February 2010 Copyright: International © copyright by Chris Somers xxy 2010 About Chris Somers xxy: The author, namely Kai Chris Somers xxy of this presentation is: 47 XXY, who is believed by medical investigation to have ovaries, a collapsed internal vagina and who…
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Maxx Ginanne’s Caster Semenya documentary “Too Fast to be a Woman?” screens in Sydney February 25 during Mardi Gras Film Festival
IN 2011 the Sydney Mardi Gras aka Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras became fully intersex inclusive under the LGBTQI acronym. Now the 2012 Mardi Gras sees London-resident, expatriate documentary filmmaker Maxx Ginnane’s film on South African athlete Caster Semenya, Too Fast to be a Woman?, screened in the Mardi Gras Film Festival on Saturday…
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