United Nations Event: Human Rights For Sexual Minorities Report by: Anis Akhtar, intersex activist in the UK. Introduction: The event was held at the House of Lords on Tuesday 24th January 2012 and there were 3 speakers who presented to an audience, in a conference room. Unfortunately, I missed the begining. Speakers: Stuart Milk, Harvey…
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Letter from UK’s Government Equalities Office about “the difficulties intersex people can face”
IN what amounts to something of an understatement, an officer of the Government Equalities Office – GEO – has replied to an intersex activist in the United Kingdom about the many examples of discrimination that he has shared with them in letters and emails. Thank you for your e-mail of 03/01/2012 2:50:17 PM about intersex people. Please…
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Some notes on intersex related to the Leveson Inquiry, Wednesday 8th February 2012
WE at Organisation Intersex International – OII – wish to express our gratitude to Trans Media Watch – TMW – and Helen Belcher in particular for including intersex in their written submission and Helen’s presentation to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the United Kingdom. Putting oneself into the public eye and…
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Scotland continues to impress in its intersex inclusion and its people’s ability to say LGBTI
THE Scottish people and media continue to impress us with their ability to say the word intersex and to pronounce intersex-including acronym LGBTI. That the people of Scotland and its media are not too frightened to say intersex and LGBTI and to cast them in print or pixels is an object lesson to the people…
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The Bay Area Reporter reports on intersex-inclusive House of Lords LGBTI human rights event
IT has been said that one can count the number of LGBTI, not LGBT, events in the United Kingdom on the palm of one hand. That may well be true. The recent LGBTI event at the House of Lords is certainly the first instance we have seen where the word intersex has been associated with…
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On the frequency of intersex and the various numbers quoted for it
PROFESSOR Peter Koopman has been cited by several news articles as a source for the number of intersex births being around 4% of all live births. Professor Koopman has assured us that he cannot verify such a figure and has made the following statement “Given the difficulties in ascertaining what is and what is not…
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