On Medical Care Our societies have accepted a binary construct between male and female which does not reflect Nature and the enormous variety of possible sexes which overlap one another in various gradations on a spectrum with male at one end and female at the other. The arbitrary division of biological sex into only…
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RIP Georgina Somerset
Georgina Somerset is often overlooked as an account of somebody who changed sex from male to female, and she is clear in her writing that she understood herself to be intersex; she lays out the details of her intersex condition quite clearly. Her second book was autobiographical, published under her married name of Georgina Somerset…
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Reflection on a decade of OII activism in an English-speaking context
Back in 2006, I’d known Jim, Curtis, Gina, Andre & others through online groups for about five years, I met Sophie at a conference in the UK in 2003, and Tina in London around the same time. Back in those days, I’d met or knew a few other intersex people in the UK, including Del,…
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Holistic medicine without autonomy!
Following a discussion with some friends about the team at UCLH, the issue of ‘changes in practice’ came up. I, like several others, through conversations with members of that team, was under the impression that these changes suggested that surgical interventions in the lives of intersex children before they could themselves consent were being reduced….
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Equal Rights Trust publishes testimony on intersex issues
The UK Equal Rights Trust has just published testimony by OII Australia president, Gina Wilson, in The Equal Rights Review, Vol. 10. Gina talks about her personal background, her work as an activist, and the issues we face in seeking human rights, including intersex and the sex binary, the medical model, invisibility in human rights…
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OII Deutschland presents to the European Parliament Intergroup
The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights hosted a seminar on intersex and trans people recently, with presentations by Dan Christian Ghattas of OII Deutschland, Silvan Agius of ILGA Europe, Richard Köhler of Transgender Europe, and others. Dan’s excellent presentation can be listened to and downloaded (PowerPoint format) or viewed via the Intergroup’s page alongside…
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