Intersex Australians are Placed on a Sex Offenders Register

[Shana A]

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Intersex Australians are Placed on a Sex Offenders Register
Article posted on OII-Australia's website:
Commentary by Sophia Siedlberg, OII-UK

http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/intersex-australians-are-placed-on-sex.html

Imagine a teenage girl with some virilizing intersex condition. It is not all that uncommon, and one of the treatments available to help with this is an androgen blocker called Cyproterone Acetate. In Australia it turns out that should someone in this situation have the need to make use of this option, they are automatically placed on the sex offenders register. You could argue that is just some strange oversight in terms of the legal aspects of prescribing certain types of drugs. It is true that Cyproterone Acetate is given in high doses to sex offenders as a part of managing their sexual appetite. But the self same drug is given to men with prostate cancer and men with prostate cancer are not put on the sex offenders register.

So a teenage girl with high androgen levels would be deemed as the same as a 40 year old man with a criminal record for sex crimes.

[jesse]

WTF???
jessica

[Krissy_Australia]

Ill ask my endo about this. I see him next week

[Butterfly]

Intersex Australians are Placed on a Sex Offenders Register
Intersex News
Commentary by Sophia Siedlberg
21 October 2009


http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/intersex-australians-are-placed-on-sex.html


The Nonce Trap.

Imagine a teenage girl with some virilizing intersex condition. It is not all that uncommon, and one of the treatments available to help with this is an androgen blocker called Cyproterone Acetate. In Australia it turns out that should someone in this situation have the need to make use of this option, they are automatically placed on the sex offenders register. You could argue that is just some strange oversight in terms of the legal aspects of prescribing certain types of drugs. It is true that Cyproterone Acetate is given in high doses to sex offenders as a part of managing their sexual appetite. But the self same drug is given to men with prostate cancer and men with prostate cancer are not put on the sex offenders register.