AIC’s Director of Advancement Kimberly Zieselman was selected to travel to Berlin early December for Advancing Trans Movements Worldwide, a meeting for funders & activists working on gender diversity. The gathering hosted by Open Society Foundations, Wellspring Advisors, in partnership with Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE), and representatives from trans movements in Africa, Europe,
AIC recently received a copy of a letter written by an international group of pediatric endocrine societies in response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture’s statement calling for an end to genital-normalizing surgeries without the consent of the affected person. The letter thanks the United Nations for bringing attention to this issue, while
The Australian Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee published its long anticipated report this month, “Involuntary or coerced sterilization of intersex people”. The report provided the first and most significant opportunity to raise issues about the health and wellbeing of intersex people in Australia with parliamentarians. OII Australia made numerous submissions to the inquiry, along with
AIC assesses top clinical priorities for Intersex and people with DSD AIC has an opportunity to offer input and consult on research affecting children with intersex conditions or DSD funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We asked for help from you, our AIC constituents, to identify a list of 5 top priorities for
On June 25th, the Organisation Intersex International Australia (OII Austrialia) announced on its website: “For the first time in Australia, and for the first time internationally, intersex people are recognised fully and authentically in anti-discrimination legislation.” On this day, the Australian Parliament voted into the law the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and
Today, AIC was invited to participate in an National Institute of Health (NIH) Listening Session. According to NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, these Listening Session are “part of our efforts to advance the health of LGBTI individuals, we will seek community input over the next year (including listening sessions and a public Request For Information),
May 5th commemorates the tragic death in 2004, of David Reimer. For those familiar with his story, his courage in speaking out in spite of the anguish and abuse he suffered seems an enormous accomplishment. Indeed, his life, though too short, and his work, contributed tremendously to the struggles for the human and civil rights
Finnish Pediatric Surgeon Mika Venhola recently denounced corrective surgeries on intersex infants and children. In his youtube interview from early April, Dr. Venhola states that when he was obliged as a medical student to perform "corrective surgery" (you can see him use air quotes in the clip) on an intersex baby he felt, "it was such a
