A/Prof Morgan Carpenter

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Open access and published recently: “From Harmful Practices and Instrumentalisation, towards Legislative Protections and Community-Owned Healthcare Services: The Context and Goals of the Intersex Movement in Australia” doi.org/10.3390/socsci…

.@UN_SPExperts: "Harrowing images of destruction, displacement & death emerged from #Rafah, including infants torn apart & people burnt alive. These barbaric attacks are a flagrant violation of international law. They are an attack on human decency & our collective humanity."

@alawriedejesus Some paediatric MBS Codes facilitate vaginoplasties and other feminising surgeries on children with “disorders of sexual differentiation”, linking another closely related clinical term to human rights violations doi.org/10.3390/socsci…

@briandavidearp Thanks for sharing, Brian!

Full article: “I’ve had constant fears that I’ll get cancer”: the construction and experience of medical intervention on intersex bodies to reduce cancer risk buff.ly/4bSGcqL

Following the end of the publisher’s embargo, the full chapter is now archived on my personal website morgancarpenter.com/normalisation-…

The book “The Legal Status of Intersex Persons” launches today by @IntersentiaUK. My chapter is entitled “The ‘normalisation’ of intersex bodies and ‘othering’ of intersex identities”. It’s also my Master of Bioethics thesis @sydhealthethics. Details: intersentia.com/en/the-legal-s…

If you've lived experience or you're a family member of someone with lived experience, and you live in Australia, you can connect with InterLink for psychosocial support ilink.net.au

For information on the context and goals of the intersex movement in Australia, this recent paper is open access doi.org/10.3390/socsci…

What Australian and UK paediatric endocrinologists say about sex assignment of infants with diagnosed innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex/dsd) - note the use of subjective measures, reference to "surgical options" (i.e. feminising/masculinising surgeries)

I wrote a piece: Gemma Collins was told to abort her intersex baby, but we deserve to live too metro.co.uk/2024/05/10/gem… via @MetroUK

"Are we ethicists, or not? A ‘complicated’, ‘uncomfortable’, ‘political’ ethical problem is no less an ethical problem." I wrote an editorial for the @JME_BMJ on Israel's wide-ranging destruction of health in Gaza. It's free to read here: jme.bmj.com/content/50/5/2…

We regret cabinet decision to close Al Jazeera in Israel. A free & independent media is essential to ensuring transparency & accountability. Now, even more so given tight restrictions on reporting from Gaza. Freedom of expression is a key human right. We urge govt to overturn ban