Organisation Intersex International in the United Kingdom
Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis have another article on IOC sex testing today, in The Guardian: Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) quietly dropped what may prove to be a bomb in the middle of the already explosive question of who can compete in women’s events in the 2012 London summer Games. The new…
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Hida Viloria’s letter to the New York Times on genetic testing of elite female athletes appears in Sunday’s paper: To the Sports Editor: Re “No Clear Option for Testing,” June 18: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, a sportscaster said, in reference to the figure skater Johnny Weir, “We should make him pass a gender test.”…
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WHEN LGBT online publication Gay Star News recently published an article quoting Stephen Frost, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Olympics organization LOCOG speaking about the LGBTI community, we thought the journalist’s fingers had slipped on the keyboard. After all, neither GSN, LOCOG nor the British government has been seen fit to equally include intersex people in their work…
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FROM before it began as an organization OII Australia has been aware of the fact that intersex people will only gain equality and the end of intersex genital mutilation – IGM – through law reform. Begging medicine to play nice failed in the past and it continues to have little to no effect now. Only…
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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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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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