Encouraging Support for Congenital Gender Variati

OII has been made aware of these changes by Ms Lisa Karma an assistant registrar with BDM.
The NSW registry is now prepared to make amendments to a birth certificate because of a mistaken assignment at the time of Birth.
Below is The part of the legislation that allows this and a case study supplied by Ms...

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http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4730&blogid=140

In association with XXYTalk.com, a blog has been set up for Klinefelter's awareness week starting the third week of March of any given year. It is important that we all make people aware of Klinefelter's not just for the purpose of the general public and of the Medical Profession, but mostly for those who have just dicovered that they have or suspect to have Klinefelter's Syndrome.

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Does the publishing of a book with an Intersex central character lead to greater understanding and acceptance for Intersex people in general? Is it good for our community?

Well maybe not. Geoffrey Euganides book Middlesex uses as his central character a person with 5 alpha reductase , one of the many physical differences that can lead to intersex. A popular read even if not amongst...

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http://www.education.monash.edu.au/staff/ednews/article.php?id=896&highlight

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/unkindest-cut-for-girls-by-doctors/story-e6freuy9-1225872266348

"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 a...

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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 int...

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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 unsu...

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To all Canadians;

Is there anyone interested in being a part of a new organisation that deals with all issues pertaining to Klinefelter's within Canada ?

The KSA organisation exists for many years in the UK and the United States. They deal with governmental aspects including the medical systems, social aspects and conferences with guest speakers.

As th...

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OII Australia has made the following submission to the Australian Human Rights Consultation

http://oiiaustralia.com/organisation-intersex-international-australia-submission-national-human-rights-consultation/

CBX2: The Age of Chromosomes is Over!
By Sophia Siedlberg

The New Scientist (1) published an article about a seven year old girl who was "diagnosed" as having XY chromosomes, but has a uterus, ovaries etc. As usual the popular press described what the team in Zurich had found, led by Dr Anna Biason-Lauber as a girl who had violated the rules of "malenes...

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These are the people that are involved at GendersInX.

Moderators

Curtis
DianneB
Kathryn
Kimberly83
Lawrence

Administrators

Gina
Andre

In a relatively short time we will be coming up to our 3^rd anniversary of GendersInX’s existence here in this server (GIX originated Feb 9^th 2006 in another). As it started from humble beginnings, GIX has blossomed to the Forum you see now and I am certain that will continue to expand not only in knowledge but be rich in the people herein.

I would like to keep...

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Well, here we are after one whole year of talking, ranting, crying, consoling, empathising, encouraging and supporting. This site has really come on it’s own, it has made it’s mark and I may be biased but this site is quite unique from all the other sites what we’ve been with or visited.

People here actually care and want to learn. The latter is the key, to learn about other people...

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When I started GendersInX, I had come from a site that talked about Klinefelter's Syndrome to the most intimate detail. This was XXYTalk.com, I was a moderator there. I had chatted with a lot of people there not just about Klinefelter's but about everything.

In that time, I had met a person with Turner's Syndrome and I was intrigued with her attitude and how similar we actually were...

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On this day, November the 8th 2007, in honor of the International
Intersex Solidarity Day, GendersInX is presenting the official
Congenital Gender Variations Ribbon in collaboration with the OII,
Organisation Intersex International.

This ribbon is a show of support for all people with congeni...

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Can anyone say what a community is ?

In the thesaurus, a community is described as a society, a cooperative spirit and as a group of people. It’s historical roots come from communes, such as the ones that were popular in the 1960’s. It was described as a place where people gathered in a sense of co-operation and a willingness to do well by another either through physical or moral m...

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Taken from InterXsites

GendersInX started when I was neck deep into moderation of another site that dealt with Klinefelter’s and all aspects of it. In amongst the many posters, a woman who had Turner’s Syndrome came on to find out what Klinefelter’s was all about. I was amazed on how much we had in common as much as I was interested on our differences in our two syndromes. I wante...

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Taken from InterXsites

Some of us hear the above title and immediately think this is only for Intersex and “other” conditions.

Not so. Let’s break the wording down.

“Congenital” basically means of what we were born with. When I looked up congenital in the Word documents’ thesaurus, they describe it as present at birth, innate, inborn, inherited and hered...

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I am writing this post with fire in my heart and I’ll tell you why.

It has come to light that most people when faced with a subject of Intersex, automatically think that because they are consorting with those that are that they must be one too. Intersex had never been about a force of being, it is about a freedom to be whomever you feel is most comfortable, a personal choice.
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ParentsInX.org
The Online Community for Parents.
Connecting Families Living with Congenital Gender Variations
in Children or their Parents.

I am proud to announce that this site is now open to Parents. Invited are Parents of a child or children of a Congenital Gender Variation (CGV) or Parents that are a CGV themselves. This site is run by Parents.
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To date GendersInX has made much headway in it's young life. Let's recap on what has been done.

February 2007, GendersinX was born in another server. The server was very limited and the storage even more, so after 31 members and over 1600 posts later, it was time to move to another location but what was apparent, was that there was a need for people to get to know each other in thier ...

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An Encouraging Support for People with Gender Variations All points of view, if presented in a civil manner, are welcome.

An Encouraging Support for People with Gender Variations
All points of view, if presented in a civil manner, are welcome.