OII Australia and OII Aotearoa/NZ release submission on the DSM-5 and SOC-7
OII Australia, together with OII Aotearoa/NZ, today released a submission [PDF] to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), regarding the draft Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...
View Article“Out of Bounds? A Critique of the New Policies on Hyperandrogenism in Elite...
Katrina Karkazis, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Georgiann Davis and Silva Comporesi write in The American Journal of Bioethics on new IAAF/IOC policies on hyperandrogenism in female athletes: In May 2011, more...
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Ground-breaking Swiss report on infant surgery, a review
Earlier this month, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics published an opinion document, On the management of differences of sex development, Ethical issues relating to...
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Equal Rights Trust, UK publishes testimony by OII Australia president
OII Australia’s President Gina Wilson provides an excellently worded testimony on behalf of intersex people to the Equal Rights Trust, a UK Human Rights think tank and advocacy organization....
View ArticleOII Australia testifies to Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced...
Australian intersex organisations OII Australia and AISSGA, together with the National LGBTI Health Alliance, participated in the country’s federal Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced...
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Things are looking up: a review of press coverage on the M.C. case in the US
Lizzie Reis writes about the M.C case taken by Advocates for Informed Choice, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Crawford family and pro bono lawyers. Writing at Nursing Clio Reis says: M.C. had been...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization publishes report on sexual health, human rights and...
The World Health Organization has published a major and long-awaited report on sexual health, human rights and the law. The report contains a specific section on intersex people, as well as other...
View ArticleOII Australia testifies to Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced...
Australian intersex organisations OII Australia and AISSGA, together with the National LGBTI Health Alliance, participated in the country’s federal Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced...
View ArticleThings are looking up: a review of press coverage on the M.C. case in the US
Lizzie Reis writes about the M.C case taken by Advocates for Informed Choice, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Crawford family and pro bono lawyers. Writing at Nursing Clio Reis says: M.C. had been...
View ArticleIntersex and Medicine: The Fourteen Days of Intersex
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...
View ArticleIntersex and XXY: The Fourteen Days of Intersex
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View ArticleIntersex Genital Mutilation – IGM: The Fourteen Days of Intersex
ON the Third Day of Intersex we draw your attention to Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM). What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and...
View ArticleOII Australia and OII Aotearoa/NZ release submission on the DSM-5 and SOC-7
OII Australia, together with OII Aotearoa/NZ, today released a submission [PDF] to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), regarding the draft Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...
View ArticleGround-breaking Swiss report on infant surgery, a review
Earlier this month, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics published an opinion document, On the management of differences of sex development, Ethical issues relating to...
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