Amnesty report highlights forced intersex surgery trauma
The report uses European case studies to show that outdated gender stereotypes are resulting in invasive and irreversible surgeries on children who are intersex.
The report uses European case studies to show that outdated gender stereotypes are resulting in invasive and irreversible surgeries on children who are intersex.
The intersex community is calling for the respect of human rights and bodily autonomy, greater respect for diversity and identity, and effective protection from discrimination.
The involuntary sterilisation of intersex children can cause permanent infertility, pain, and lifelong depression.
The biggest study of Australian intersex people has called on legislation to be changed to protect them.
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”.
WOMEN with diverse gender and sexual identities are more distressed and unhealthy than people with better-understood identities, a new report has found. The Rainbow Women and …
A proposed same-sex marriage bill under consideration in NSW Parliament may exclude trans and intersex people from getting married in the state. The Star Observer …
A Senate inquiry has heard that intersex people, including children and newborn infants, regularly undergo unnecessary surgery and hormone therapy at the urging of doctors …