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Intersex and Religion: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Eleventh Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and religion. 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 is, we may be thought of as being male…
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Intersex and Medicine: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Fourth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and medicine, of intersex and its uneasy relationship with medicine and medical practitioners 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 and Marriage: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Sixth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and marriage – intersex people and the right to marry. 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 is,…
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Intersex Aged Care: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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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

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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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Making the invisible visible: intersex rights are human rights which should be protected under new equality laws

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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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Sexing the Difference in Gender and the Anomalies of Interpretation

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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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