Some notes on intersex related to the Leveson Inquiry, Wednesday 8th February 2012

By Admin on 13 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

By Admin on 4 February 2012.

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

By Admin on 1 February 2012.

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

By Admin on 22 January 2012.

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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Now they are LGBT+… are the UK’s Liberal Democrats moving towards overt intersex inclusion?

By Admin on 18 January 2012.

WE were pleasantly surprised to see that the United Kingdom’s LGBT Liberal Democrats wing of the Liberal Democrat party is now calling itself the LGBT+ Liberal Democrats. The Lib Dems went into coalition with the Conservatives in order to form government and appear to be a willing party to that government’s odd intersex-excluding “LGB&T” acronym. The coalition’s…
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UK GEO 2011 transgender action plan excludes intersex

By Admin on 9 January 2012.

WE really should not be surprised, given how poor the UK Government Equalities Office‘s efforts on behalf of intersex people have been to date. Surveys promised to be intersex inclusive have been anything but, or have been inclusive only in the most token manner. Now the inevitable has happened and the GEO’s Advancing transgender equality: a plan for…
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Some notes on intersex related to the Leveson Inquiry, Wednesday 8th February 2012

Scotland continues to impress in its intersex inclusion and its people’s ability to say LGBTI

The Bay Area Reporter reports on intersex-inclusive House of Lords LGBTI human rights event

On the frequency of intersex and the various numbers quoted for it

Now they are LGBT+… are the UK’s Liberal Democrats moving towards overt intersex inclusion?

UK GEO 2011 transgender action plan excludes intersex

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