Intersex Awareness Day, 2014
October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day. People with intersex variations are born with atypical physical sex characteristics. Intersex people face a range of health and human rights issues, and...
View ArticleNSW Legislative Council calls for implementation of Senate report on...
We’ve just heard that a motion put forward to the upper house of the NSW Parliament by Dr Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) passed the Legislative Council at 2.45pm today. The motion needed cross party support...
View ArticleDifferent priorities
Ever feel like there are different priorities? Folks talk with us about birth certificates. We talk about health, sterilisation, bodily autonomy and peer support. #intersex Download and share...
View ArticleWe celebrate Maltese protections for intersex people
OII Australia joins with our European intersex and trans partner organisations in celebrating the passage of the Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. The Act passed with cross...
View ArticleUN Free & Equal campaign publishes intersex fact sheet
Overnight, the UN OHCHR released a long-awaited intersex fact sheet, as part of the Free&Equal campaign. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of...
View ArticleILGA Europe’s summer magazine talks about intersex equality
ILGA Europe has published its summer magazine, Destination Equality, and this issue focuses on intersex. It includes an article and other content by Morgan Carpenter. In this edition: Sophie Aujean,...
View ArticleLet Dutee Chand run
We are disturbed by reports that Indian woman athlete Dutee Chand has been denied a position in the Indian Commonwealth Games team, on the basis of a test result showing elevated natural levels of...
View ArticleSchoolbook on “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, and intersex status
We have recently received a copy of “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, a schoolbook by Australian publisher The Spinney Press in their “Issues in Society” series. It also contains content on...
View ArticleTony Briffa in Body&Soul: “I’m proud to be intersex”
Tony Briffa appears in an article in the “Body and Soul” magazine today, in the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Mail (QLD), Sunday Mail (SA), Sunday Territorian, Sunday...
View ArticleEmployers’ guide to intersex inclusion
OII Australia is proud and delighted to partner with Pride in Diversity to publish the Employers' guide to intersex inclusion. Written by Morgan Carpenter and Dawn Hough, the guide is kindly sponsored...
View ArticleSalvation Army: intersex people “Made in God’s image”
Tony Briffa held a training and education event for the Salvation Army at the Mitcham Corps in Victoria on 3 April. An article about the event has now been posted to the Salvation Army’s Australian...
View ArticleNew resources for allies, parents and service providers!
OII Australia and ACON announce three new resources to explain intersex to the LGBT* and broader communities, service providers and parents. The resources have been produced by OII Australia, a...
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