Dutee Chand wins landmark case against the IAAF

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Sometimes really, really good things happen Katrina Karkazis   In a decision that will reverberate across international athletics, and the wider sporting landscape, the runner Dutee Chand has overturned the IAAF regulations governing female athletes competing in elite athletics, solely on the basis of arbitrary blood testosterone levels. The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced…
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Hidden in Plain Sight

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The United States has been in the vanguard of writing and influencing intersex medical protocols since the 1950’s, and it has been so since J Money wrote his hypothesis that sought to justify non-consensual, pre-emptive surgical and other medical interventions on people born intersex.  The currently adopted protocols have only served to reify those orthodoxies. …
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This is what they do

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This is what they do

An intersex activist colleague, Dr Small Luk, was recently interviewed by Time Out in Hong Kong.  In the interview they speak with great candour and honesty about their experiences, and the effect medical interventions had on their life. http://www.timeout.com.hk/gay-lesbian/features/72091/interview-we-talk-to-intersex-individual-dr-small-luk-about-her-gender-struggles.html   “I really thought I was a monster […] It isn’t the intersex person that needs…
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Iatrogenic Trauma

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Medical authority deems interventions toward anyone born with an intersex variation as always benign, and a positive contribution to the future well-being of that individual. Intersex advocacy and activism has made it clear for over 20+ years that is untrue, yet clinicians still cling to that belief.  A superb critique of that cognitive dissonance can…
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WHO report – Sexual Health, Human Rights and the Law

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The World Health Organisation today published it’s long awaited report on sexual health, human rights and the law. Echoing a  recently published report by the UN, the WHO report contains a significant section dedicated to intersex people, as well describing the situation of other stigmatized groups in society such as lesbians, gay men and transgender…
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