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Title: HRC plans dialogue with Intersex NZers
Post by: Shana A on January 23, 2008, 08:33:46 PM
HRC plans dialogue with Intersex NZers

http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_5502.php (http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_5502.php)

Posted in: New Zealand Daily News
By GayNZ.com News Staff - 24th January 2008

Following the recent publication of the New Zealand's Human Rights Commission Transgender Inquiry, the commission believes Intersex people are another group in urgent need of their attention.

'Intersex' is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not seem to fit the typical biological definitions of female or male. Some people now call themselves 'intersex'.