Intersex Awareness Day 2024

October 24, 2024:

Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day each October 26, designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people.

This is a day of grass-roots action to end shame and secrecy and provides an opportunity for reflection and political action. Between October 26 and November 8, intersex organizations bring attention to the challenges intersex individuals face, culminating in the Intersex Solidarity Day on November 8th.

A global and decentralised intersex movement pursues simple core goals: the rights to bodily autonomy and self-determination, and an end to stigmatisation. The international human rights system is responding with an array of new policy statements from human rights institutions and a handful of national governments recognising the rights of intersex people. However, major challenges remain to implement those statements.
Morgan Carpenter, “The human rights of intersex people: addressing harmful practices and rhetoric of change“

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters envisions, and works towards, a world where comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights are respected, protected and fulfilled and where sexual and reproductive health-related laws, policies, health systems and practices are based on human rights and social justice and the needs of all people without discrimination and violence.

Watch this space for an upcoming interview to be released on November 8th with Morgan Carpenter, Associate Professor and bioethicist at Sydney Health Ethics in the University of Sydney School of Public Health and Executive Director of Intersex Human Rights Australia and Mauro Cabral, Principal Consultant, and Project Coordinator for Intersex Human Rights Australia and SRHM Editorial and Advisory Board Member, for Intersex Day of Solidarity.

Selected papers from the SRHM Journal

2024

What do oral contraceptive pills have to do with human rights abuses in sport?
Katrina Karkazis &Michele Krech

2022

Ageing in obscurity: a critical literature review regarding older intersex people
Adeline W. Berry & Surya Monro

Experiences of intersex individuals in Bangladesh: some reflections
Tanvir Alim,Md. Shihab & Adnan Hossain

2021

Unequal medicine harms: reflections on the experiences of an intersex physician
Katherine J. Kramer, Aliye Runyan, Elizabeth A. Micks, Sejal Tamakuwala, Mary Reid, Suha Syed, Conrad R. Chao & Maurice-Andre Recanati

2020

The OHCHR background note on human rights violations against intersex people
Morgan Carpenter

2016

The human rights of intersex people: addressing harmful practices and rhetoric of change
Morgan Carpenter

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