Posts tagged Intersex Awareness Day

Today is Intersex Awareness Day, a day to bring awareness to the challenges that intersex people face in an international day of action to end …

The invasive procedures continue to be carried out in Australia without personal informed consent, and are often irreversible.

“We hear a lot of reassurances from different bodies that there has been change, but nobody has been able to produce any evidence of that.”

Babies and children are still often subjected to unnecessary and harmful surgery.

Around 1.7 per cent of the population is intersex, making it almost as common as being a redhead.

The involuntary sterilisation of intersex children can cause permanent infertility, pain, and lifelong depression.

An Australian-based research institute announced a genetic discovery that purported to help understand why some people are born intersex. The discovery came just weeks before Intersex Awareness Day on October 26. In light of this, Morgan Carpenter explains why such medical “discoveries” are examples of stigmatising intersex as a “disorder”.

Saturday marks Intersex Awareness Day. In a nod to Stonewall, it commemorates the first public protest by American intersex activists. The event marks a good …

Intersex Awareness Day will be celebrated around the world this weekend to highlight the continuing challenges faced by intersex people, with a special event in …