Morgan Carpenter – InterAction

World Athletics continually relitigates its regulations impacting some elite women athletes with innate variations of sex characteristics, in the context of a moral panic about participation in sport by a trans people, different population.

Trump’s Executive Order on “gender ideology” and “biological truth” uses a gamete-based definition of sex, which is not directly tested for at birth, and which will have adverse consequences for many intersex people.

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Intersex Human Rights Australia and Intersex Peer Support Australia are uniting to form a new force for change: InterAction for Health and Human Rights. Folks may also wish to call us InterAction DownUnder, or just InterAction.

We have today been advised by the ABS that the government will not include a question on innate variations of sex characteristics in the 2026 census, despite including questions on sex, sexuality and gender.

The 2016 and 2021 censuses sought to capture data on people with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex variations/differences of sex development), but they did so in ways that were harmful and that did not produce reliable, meaningful data. We have an opportunity to do better in the 2026 census.

The American Journal of Bioethics has published a global bioethics consensus statement, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and with contributions made by more than 150 international experts from more than 24 countries, including IHRA’s own Dr Morgan Carpenter and Mauro Cabral Grinspan.

IHRA celebrates today the publication of the groundbreaking article titled “Perspectives on conducting “sex-normalising” intersex surgeries conducted in infancy: a systematic review”. The independent research team includes staff of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH).

MEDIA STATEMENT 25 August 2024 Lack of LGBTIQ+ inclusion in the next census will adversely impact health outcomes The Albanese Government’s decision that it will not include questions counting LGBTIQ+ Australians in the 2026 Census (as reported on by Sky News) shows a shameful lack of commitment to addressing the health and wellbeing disparities experienced…
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The Western Australian Parliament is currently debating a Births, Deaths and Marriages Bill that will make it easier for gender diverse people to change their sex or gender marker on birth registration documents. However, much of the debate makes erroneous assumptions about the implications of the bill for people with innate variations of sex characteristics….
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We need to speak up about hateful rhetoric about women Olympic athletes, competing in Paris, who are purported to have innate variations of sex characteristics.

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