Intersex Awareness Day: From an XXY/Klinefelter’s Perspective

This video is a joint collaboration between KSA (UK) and The XXY Project. It was an honour to work with KSA, and we look forward to all future engagements. We hope awareness of this nature will one day play a crucial role in eradicating the stigma that parents have long associated with Intersex and that …

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AHRC recommends all unnecessary medical interventions on Intersex children be prohibited.

A landmark Human Rights Commission report, to be released tomorrow, recommends all Australian states and territories prohibit unnecessary medical treatments that modify a child's physical, hormonal or genetic sex characteristics until they are old enough to consent. If accepted, the recommendations will take away the right of parents to agree to treatments on behalf of their …

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The nearly forgotten origin myth of Hawaii’s third-gender healers, as told by one

Could the Māhū have been XXY or some other form of Intersex? In Hawaiian culture, moʻolelo means story, tale or myth, but it also refers to history. Traditionally passed down through oral storytelling, moʻolelo serve as a connection to the past, carrying wisdom and entertainment across generations. Over the centuries, however, many moʻolelo have been censored or …

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Research for American’s over 65 who are Intersex or living with a DSD

Here's an opportunity for you to participate in research and get paid for your time. The author (Nik Lampe) is not associated with The XXY Project; we are merely the messenger and encourage those of you who qualify to participate.Nik Lampe, a Ph.D. student in the Sociology Department at the University of South Carolina is …

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Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland

In 1968, a weapon grave with brooches was found at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Hattula, Finland. Since then, the grave has been interpreted as evidence of powerful women, even female warriors and leaders in early medieval Finland. Others have denied the possibility of a woman buried with a sword and tried to explain it as a double …

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Bodies In Doubt

An American History of Intersex second edition: Elizabeth Reis From the author: When I first published Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex in 2009, not many people had even heard of “intersex” (atypical development of genitals, chromosomes, hormones and gonads), though of course individuals have always been born with these traits. More than a decade …

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Victorian intersex oversight panel proposal

Equality Australia is inviting you to tell them what you think about a proposed scheme to end deferrable and unnecessary medical interventions on intersex people without their personal consent. They want to hear from people born with innate variations of sex characteristics and their families, clinicians and health professionals, and other interested stakeholders about a …

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Klinefelter Syndrome In An Identical Female Twin

Photo credit: Babatunde OlajideLekki - Ikoyi Link Bridge, Nigeria. Although seldom reported, variances in Klinefelter’s Syndrome are only rare in the sense they are rarely reported. Usually this type of variant is documented as Androgen Insensitivity (AIS) and mostly because the genitalia more closely matches that of a female and not male, even in instances …

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U.N Human Rights Council to Investigate Violations and Abuses Against Intersex Persons.

The Vienna Declaration states that human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. The VDPA makes clear that “every person is born equal and has the same rights to life and welfare, education and work, living independently and active participation in all aspects of society”. However, intersex people – that is, individuals who are born …

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