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…
Read More AHRC recommends all unnecessary medical interventions on Intersex children be prohibited.
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…
Read More Research for American’s over 65 who are Intersex or living with a DSD
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…
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),…
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…
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 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…
Read More U.N Human Rights Council to Investigate Violations and Abuses Against Intersex Persons.
The XXY Project has been asked to share this vital research among the XXY community and beyond and we, in turn, ask you, to share it amongst your networks regardless of what Intersex variation that may be. As with research…
FOR Arman Raznahan, publishing research on sex differences is a fraught proposition. Now chief of the section on developmental neurogenomics at the National Institutes of Health, Raznahan learned early that searching for dissimilarities between men’s and women’s brains can have unintended…
Read More Study Finds Sex Differences in the Brain. Does It Matter?
High school photography teacher, Chris Somers, speaks with Phoebe Hart about their experience of XXY of being a child in high school, developing breasts and of the relentless teasing from peers that would eventually lead to Chris undergoing a double…
