Rift emerges between minority groups

Posted on 07 June 2011

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2011/06/07/rift-emerges-between-minority-groups/53960

A rift has emerged among advocates for Australia's sex and gender minorities, with the peak intersex advocacy group Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia refusing to participate in the first national sex and gender diverse people's rally on May 12.

OII Australia president Gina Wilson said the rally had misrepresented intersex needs by applying its demands to all "intersex, sex and/or gender diverse (ISGD) people," when some did not apply to intersex people and, if applied to them, could be detrimental.

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"Every single speech and all representations of intersex were made by transpeople. We think this is a grossly unbalanced representation of intersex people who, in the vast majority, live non-trans lives.