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Australia Passes Landmark Anti-Discrimination Legislation Officially Protecting Intersex People

July 17th, 2013|

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

David Reimer, Honor and Remember Him

May 3rd, 2013|

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 Denounces Intersex Surgeries

April 18th, 2013|

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

The Pursuit of Happiness in Our Original Beautiful Bodies: Pidgeon Pagonis’ Recent Testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

April 8th, 2013|

The Ides of March (March 15th) marks a day of ancient betrayal, the assassination of Cesar, in the popular imagination of the West. Intersex youth, adults, and their communities are no strangers to such feelings. For the thousands of intersex children and adult survivors who have endured non-consensual genital surgeries, the medical institutions set-up to

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