Submission to ALRC review of Equality, Capacity and Disability in...
OII Australia has just made a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission in relation to its inquiry on Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws: This Inquiry will examine laws and...
View ArticleIntersex people and mental health: Morgan Carpenter’s speech at Courageous...
Morgan Carpenter was a plenary speaker at Courageous Voices, the LGBTI Mental Health Conference 2014. The event was held on 26-27 June at the Pullman Sydney Hyde Park Hotel, 36 College Street in...
View ArticleSubmission to inquiry on intentional self-harm in children
Following a meeting between Megan Mitchell, the National Children’s Commissioner, and Morgan Carpenter, yesterday, we have made a late submission to the National Children’s Commissioner inquiry on...
View ArticleDiversity & power in mental health services: Addressing structural violence
OII Australia is really pleased to announce that Morgan Carpenter will be participating in The Mental Health Services Conference in Perth this August, as part of an intersectional symposium entitled...
View ArticleNo scientific basis for current policy excluding elite intersex women from sport
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism this month contains a report on research by the International Association of Athletics Federations’ Medical and Anti-Doping Department and...
View ArticleSubmission to the UN Committee Against Torture
OII Australia has made a submission to the UN Committee Against Torture, in relation to a national review of Australia’s work. The submission has been endorsed by the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome...
View ArticleNSW Legislative Council calls for implementation of Senate report on...
A motion calling for the implementation of the Commonwealth Senate committee report on the involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people passed the NSW Legislative Council at 2.45pm today....
View ArticleWe welcome Maltese government proposals on rights to bodily autonomy
In October this year, the Maltese government launched a consultation exercise regarding a new Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Bill (“GIGESC”). The Bill is ground-breaking and,...
View ArticleHuman rights consultation on SOGII legal reform and services
Tim Wilson, the Human Rights Commissioner and Commission Spokesperson on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex (SOGII) rights, has announced a survey and consultation to explore key rights...
View ArticleIntersex and ageing
A speech given on intersex and ageing to a local NSW audience on Monday 2 February by Morgan Carpenter. It follows the 2012 publication of an intersex-inclusive national strategy for LGBTI ageing and...
View ArticleHuman Rights Commission submission on intersex policy reform and services
Late last year, the Human Rights Commissioner announced a survey and consultation to explore key rights and services issues affecting LGBT and intersex people in Australia. Download OII Australia SOGII...
View ArticleTony Briffa in the Times of Malta: welcoming Malta’s stance on intersex
Tony Briffa has been interviewed by Claudia Calleja of the Time of Malta, while a Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Bill proceeds through that nation’s parliament. Tony and OII...
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 ArticlePBS policy change on testosterone
This is a submission to the Health Minister, following a reported policy change restricting access to testosterone to treatment initiated by a specialist. Dear Minister I write as president of...
View ArticleUN committee on disability issues comments on intersex
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued observations on Germany overnight, including a statement on intersex people for the first time. In doing so it referenced a previous...
View ArticleCouncil of Europe on “Human rights and intersex people”
We warmly congratulate the Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks, and report author Silvan Agius for a landmark report on the human rights of people with intersex variations....
View ArticleUN report condemns violence against LGBT and intersex people
Overnight, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued a new report, “Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender...
View ArticleWomen with CAH: “good” results justify surgeries; “bad” results have unclear...
Numerous studies were presented by Australian teams to the I-DSD conference in Belgium this month, including several from the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Two studies stand out, despite being...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization publishes report on sexual health, human rights and...
Today the World Health Organization has published a major and long-awated report on sexual health, human rights and the law. It contains a specific section on intersex people, as well as other...
View ArticleCongratulations to Mauro Cabral
The visibility of the intersex movement is hampered by our worldwide lack of resourcing. It’s also notable that intersex and LGBT movements can often diverge: while most intersex people know a lot...
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