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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...

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...

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:

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” and held publicly accountable...

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...

PRESS RELEASE – COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE – COMUNICADO DE PRENSA – PRESSEMITTEILUNG – COMUNICADO DE IMPRENSA

From/de/von: Curtis E. Hinkle
Subject/sujet/asunto/Thema: http://www.intersexualite.org/Zucker_boys.html

Organisation Internationale des Intersexes / Organisation Intersex International / Organización Internacional de Intersexuales / Organização Internacional...

Handbook for Parents written by Parents - Castellano abajo - Français suit

This handbook is now available in English. OII will have a Spanish translation of the manual soon.
http://www.intersexualite.org/parents_handbook.html

PDF: http://www.intersexualite.org/Handbook.pdf

Circulate widely:
Against human rights violations of apparently gender variant children and adults

http://www.petitiononline.com/hrights/petition-sign.html

To the Honourable George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care for Ontario
(La version française...

Subject: CAMH and child abuse
Sent By: oii@intersexualite.org
On: Wednesday, May 21,
2008 10:49:01 PM
To: gsmitherman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Cc: kcohen@cpa.ca,

Dear Members,

I am very honored to introduce OII's two newest board members, Kristen Worley and Y. Gavriel Ansara.

OII-Canada
Kristen Worley is a famous athlete who has worked in many countries in the world with the International Olympic Committee to end discrimination against intersex and trans athletes. She will speak on behalf of OII as spokeswoman against sexism and discrimination. For more information about Kristen Worley:

Zucker's GID therapy - DSM implications and deflections
by Prof. M. Italiano, OII advisor on Variations of Sex Development
http://www.intersexualite.org/Zucker_GID_DSM.html

Here we find an odd article by Zucker and Spitzer. http://tinyurl.com/4ssbcl It should...

Please share the DIRECT link to this investigation which is only beginning with all interested parties.
http://www.intersexualite.org/investigation.html

Deconstructing the Feminine Essence Narrative
Ongoing investigation by OII

Introduction

In the coming weeks, OII will be working with an informant who has primary sources and e-mails from the individuals involved in an attempt to deconstruct the “feminine...

Essays on Intersex
by Curtis E. Hinkle

Available in pdf on OII's website:

http://www.intersexualite.org/Essays_on_Intersex_by_Curtis_E._Hinkle.pdf

Table of Contents:

Ten Misconceptions about Intersex 3

Sex versus Gender : Exposing medical violence and dishonesty 7

Who owns our bodies? Human rights and the intersexed 10

People without faces : Controlling discourse to objectify and silence marginalized groups...

NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release
April 7, 2008
Contact: Nancy Nangeroni, nancy@gendervision.org, 978-969-2346

GenderVision Releases First Video Program, "Sex & Gender"

Now available: the first show of the long-awaited video program, "GenderVision." Produced and hosted by GenderTalk radio producers Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene MacKenzie, GenderVision continues the ground-breaking work of challenging and expanding our vision of gender and progressive politics. Cablecast in Beverly,...

Mutilations or non-consensual normalization treatments?

Statement and clarification from OII available with hyperlinks at

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

Summary:

We have been asked why OII's Official Position on Health Care does not mention mutilations. There are many reasons for this. Most intersex activism has been focused on just denouncing surgery (basically feminizing surgery), while insisting on a gender assignment as soon as possible....

Statement by Sophia Siedlberg, Spokesperson for OII in the United Kingdom
2 April 2008
http://www.intersexualite.org/Siedlberg.html#anchor_20

Hello Clarke-Northwestern. Hello Sexnet. How are you nice people today? While you are eating your breakfasts, lunch or supper depending on the time you actually read this, I would like you to contemplate a concept known as “Dissent”. That is people do not agree with everything you say, and perhaps more unsettling for you is the fact that...

Sugar and Snails
(c) 2008

A book by Sophia Siedlberg, OII spokesperson in the United Kingdom, will be published in chapters which will be released on this website one by one over the next few weeks. At the end there will be 27 chapters.

All art and literary works published here are protected by copyright and belong to Sophia Siedlberg.

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Litany of Apoptosis
Chapter 2: The Killer Sperm

To download the chapters which are available in PDF:

Best Wishes and peace to all during the Passover ,Easter break .

(or whatever other season this holiday signifies for you)

For the chockaholics enjoy the eggs!!
or maybe a cup of coffee with friends:

P.S I am told last Friday was Purim and the Passover is next month April 19th..... a double Holiday for us all???

On January 30, 2008, the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf UKE in Hamburg held the 2nd Interdisciplinary Forum on Intersexuality.

The most important moment of the event was when the Verein Intersexuelle Menschen e.V. (Association for the Intersexed) honored Dr. Milton Diamond for his years of service to the intersex community and his endless commitment to their well-being and acceptance within society.

We in OII wish to express our agreement with the German Intersex people who honored him. Dr. Milton Diamond has been devoted to listening to intersexed people and working...

PRESS RELEASE - Feb. 6, 2008
Organisation Intersex International
http://www.intersexualite.org/
Congratulations to Christiane Völling

The Organisation Intersex International congratulates Christiane Völling the German intersex woman who sued a surgeon for damages. Today the Cologne Regional Court ruled that her ovaries and uterus were removed over 30 years ago without her informed consent.

This verdict further justifies OII's position that present-day medical treatment of intersex infants and children...

DSD: North American Medical fascism and manufacturing consent

By Curtis E. Hinkle
Founder, Organisation Intersex International

One of the most important questions to ask concerning the controversy surrounding the term “DSD”, Disorders of sex development, as a replacement for intersex is a simple one. Why do we need to have a name at all? Why do we need to have a diagnosis at all? Other important questions include who is naming us and for what reasons? Does this have anything to do with us at all? Should it even concern us?

In the last...

To read this article:

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

Responses to the following comments published in the American Journal of Psychiatry:

Feb. 2, 2008: Drs. Bostwick and Martin Reply
Feb. 2, 2008: Disorders of Sex Development: Improving Care for Affected Persons and Their Families

Responses available at:

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

Announcent from Caitlin Childs, intersex activist based in Atlanta, Ga.
To contact Caitlin Childs: caitlinpetrakischilds@gmail.com

'One in 2000'

***Please forward and repost widely!***

Please note that there will be 4 opportunities to catch the film in Atlanta. Details below. All events are free and open to the public.

'One in 2000'

Did you know that each year an estimated one in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them...

Gender is not something many people would expect to be an issue for someone seeking help at a women's shelter.

But it could be, if your gender is questioned.

The issue of transsexual women receiving shelter and other support services was a topic of discussion Thursday during a workshop entitled, "Creating Inclusive Spaces for all Women," organized by the Chatham-Kent Women's Centre Outreach Program.

Joelle Laramee, vice-president and spokeswoman for the Canadian Organisation of Internationale des Intersexués, based in Montreal, was one of the panel speakers.

Call for Papers

For those who are interested, there may intersexed people who wish to include intersex within the following topics :

The Human Condition Series
2nd Annual Conference. Terror. May 2 & 3, 2008. Barrie. Ontario. Canada

Spaces of Terror

* Hospitals, Clinics and the Medical Industry as Terror

Gender, Sexuality and Terror

* Otherness as Terror
* Patriarchy and the Violence of Gender Performance
* Gendering Terrorism

Here is the complete call for papers :