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Intersex Solidarity Day
November 8
Herculine Barbin's Birthday

http://www.intersexualite.org/

The Organisation Intersex International, would like to invite others to join us each year by commemorating November 8 as Intersex Solidarity Day. All human rights organizations, feminist allies, academics and gender specialists, as well as other groups and individuals interested in intersex human rights, are invited to show...

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2011/3314137.htm


The screening for CAH in pregnant women has lead to two completely unacceptable situations. In the USA screening has lead to the termination of pregnancies where a foetus is thought to have CAH and to the treatment of pregnant women with dexamethazone.

The unspoken word in this report is Intersex. CAH is one of the most common underlying causes of Intersex in XX humans. The push for pre natal screening...

http://oiiaustralia.com/14376/intersex-great-worldwide-struggle/

MEDIA RELEASE
5 September 2011
Brussels, Belgium

FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL INTERSEX FORUM
The world’s 1st International Intersex Organising Forum took place in Brussels between 3-5 September 2011. The historic event brought together 24 activists representing 17 intersex organisations from all continents.

Around the world intersex individuals are being subjected to inhumane and...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0139jv4

Unable to be viewed outside of the U.K however this documentry puts Intersex as a disease . Write to the BBC and ask them to be inclusive of alternate views of Intersex as difference and that DSD is a contentious discriptor.

AISSG U.K and Intersex UK a new group are responsibkle for this .

Intersex on FBI see from about -14 onwards "The edge of Nowhere".

http://www.cpod.org.au/page.php?id=232
http://www.cpod.org.au/download.php?id=6100

http://www.cpod.org.au/page.php?id=232
FBi's All The Best
www.cpod.org.au

Intersex individuals in Australia will soon be incl;uded in Anti discrimination legeslation

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/lgbti/lgbticonsult/report/SGI_2011.pdf

One of my dearest friends and a stanuch suporter of OII Australia and NZ passed away on the 27th of FEB.

I am deeply deeply sad at this sudden news. I was aware of Jo's heart condition and her refusal to be institutionalised because of it. I didn't realise it was this close.

below is the message i recieved

From: Kevin Burns
Subject: Joanne Proctor

Message Body:
I regret to inform you that my good friend, Joanne passed away in her home on or about Sunday the 27th of February. I am liasing in NZ with her daughter Steph...

...

Support our friend Bhakti



"Bhakti Ananda Goswami Greetings OII Friends,



I am facing my own little INTERSEX human rights nightmare soon, as the Transsexual-Phobic American Real ID Act, which was attached to the Homeland Security legislation, will require me to provide my original Birth Cert...ificate to renew my driver's license on my 62 nd birthday.



More than 40 years ago, after providing letters from my doctors and getting a Court Order to legally change my name and gender, a Legal Aid attorney in my state of residence made...

university of manchester LGBT society appear to have organised protest against Dr Kenneth Zucker from 10am outside The Lowry Hotel Manchester (event link on my profile) Friday 3rd December, though they refer to Zucker as "gay-cure" child psychologist, unsure if this is helpful or not to trans and intersex issues but I'm not involved with party political student groups. Will post link, any paid journalists covering this story?

I was asked to address the rally for Intersex and for Trans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4bnLkQi-E&feature=related

the full text of my speech is below

Speech to the marriage equality Rally November 2010-11-26

Welcome: today we have gathered to insist on the right of all people to marry irrespective of sex or gender.
The call for this right is often characterised as a call for “gay marriage” or “same sex Marriage” but that’s only...

CARES foundation springs to Dix Poppas defense. The Cares Foundation is one of the leading parents and doctors groups representing children with Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. This extremely homophobic organisation recommends the use of dexamethazone for pregnant woman as a way of preventing CAH children becoming lesbians. They also support Dix poppas performing experimental surgery on CAH children’s genitals to make them look "normal" and confirming the efficacy of his work by sexually stimulating them with a vibrator.
Close down this Organisation

"I am the third sex, not a man trying to be a woman. It is your society's problem that you only recognize two sexes." Mona Ahmed expressed her plight in a book written by Dayanita Singh “Myself Mona Ahmed”. Mona has sadly but daringly expressed that her being third sex is not her problem, indeed it’s our society’s problem as we have failed to explicitly give third sex a recognition and an appropriate place in our society and in our heart. It’s really disappointing to find that we still have the same old discriminative eyes to look at them and make mockery of them. All children are born...

OII Australia will be participating in this years Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras. As far as we know this will be the first time Intersex has specifically been included in the parade.
OII will march with the New South Wales Inner City Legal Service float.

I will be wearing a silver cape with Intersex across the back and a white sparkly T shirt with OII Intersex on the front.

The Australian Capital Territory has widened its Human rights legislation to Include Intersex. We have been added to Gender identity section . It is not perfect but it is the first time Intersex has...

Dear OII Members.

I have followed up on a mail by Curtis in regard to two Intersex orphans in Uganda that are of concern to our good friend and ally Julius. K . Kaggawa. http://www.sipd.webs.com/.

I had two reasons to correspond with Julius the first my concern for the two infants referred to below and the second the current attempt to introduce homophobic legislation into Ugandan law. OII Australia in conjunction with Amnesty International and Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) are organising...

Ms Semenya I never knew you.



The events surrounding the gold medal run by Ms Caster Semenya in August of this year has created a perfect storm of speculation around Intersex.



I know little about Ms Semenya save that she has, by winning a gold medal, brought the full force of sex binary enforcement and Intersexphobia down on her, apparently unsuitable, shoulders.



The word most frequently used to describe her outstanding abilities and differences is Hermaphrodite. This is not only a lie it is a vicious...

OII Australia will be attending the launch of the ICLC domestic
violence service and speak about how D.V affects Intersex.

ICLC offers assistance specific to Intersex and D.V in another world first.

http://www.starobserver.com.au:80/news/2009/06/30/new-service-for-domestic-violence-victims/14178

It is with a heavy heart I convey ther news that the founder Of Organisation Intersex International Curtis Hinkle has lost his life partner Jeannie Kay. Jeannie Kay passed away yesterday .

Curtis has said that Jeannie Kay's acceptance of his Intersex and her support for his right to be himself was a critical element in his ability to do the things he has done to further the cause for all Intersex.

Then we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Jeannie Kaye who must be recognised as critical to the establishmnet of our organisation and in that, a way for Intersex voices to be...

Open letter to members of WPATH about Whittle’s attacks on the intersex community


I have found that not confronting bullies who attack other people unjustly and inaccurately is not healthy and constructive, especially when the person is head of an organisation which is speaking both on intersex and trans issues.

On Whittle's blog:
http://whittlings.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

1) He has used OII's logo without our permission or...

Intersex Demonstration

Nicolas, OII-Switzerland
43 years old, Lausanne

“Everything was going just fine until a doctor decided to ‘normalize’ me, at the late age of 38. I was married and I had a child but I knew I was XXY. I found out I had this particular karyotype when I was 20 during a medical checkup and I thought for a long, long time before consulting a specialist. The only answer I got was that the doctor prescribed “something that would be good for me” and then told me not to read the warnings. Since he was afraid that I would be...

Many happynesses to all of you Cafe patrons.

Your company has been a blessing over the year just past , I look foward to seeing you all here next year.

Remember those darn slippery roads all you Northerners , and for the sotherners stay safe and cover up in the sun

(Just rubbing it in to the snow bound freeziola north )

Gina

...

http://www.intersexualite.org/Seelenlos.html

http://www.intersexualite.org/Seelenlos.html

My translation:
Hardly any active scientist today has more on this conscience concerning forced operations on hermaphrodites that the Prof. Dr. Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg. Despite this, he is hardly criticized by the “Intersex Community”...

Posted by Gina on behalf of UK members.


Dear All

As you are most probably aware, my local parliamentary representative
Simon Hughes MP is drafting proposed new legislation that will grant
certain rights to individuals who do not identify as male or female
and for whom compulsory gendered categorisation into the societal
gender system is not appropriate.

The purpose of legislation is to accord legal recognition for
identities other than male and female. The outcome of legal
recognition of existence outside the gendered societal...

You can find some DSD Warning Labels at the following URL:

http://www.intersexualite.org/DSD_warnings.html

Ambiguous Medicine and Sexist Genetics: A Critique of the DSD Nomenclature
By M. Italiano, M.B.B.S. (A.M.) and Curtis E. Hinkle
© Aug. 8, 2008

Online at: http://www.intersexualite.org/sexist_genetics.html

Please read the following petition and support equality and human rights.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ccabei08/petition.html

Kind regards,
Curtis E. Hinkle
Author of Human Rights for All Athletes Petition

Intersex Elder receives Award for Volunteer Activism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR55TUJ18M

This video includes very moving comments by David about intersex human rights.

David Cameron Strachan is OII-USA Spokesperson for Human Rights

Quiz for Bo Laurent and Co.

I received the following e-mail. These seemed like intelligent questions worthy of consideration. - Curtis E. Hinkl

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From: Name removed for anonymity
To: curtis.hinkle@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Subject: QUIZ/Laurent and co.

Dear Curtis Hinkle,

I have...