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The new Queensland government has suspended access to hormone replacement and puberty blockers for children and youths with gender dysphoria who are not already receiving treatment. How does this affect children with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSCs/intersex variations/DSDs)?
By Surya Monro, Adeline Berry, Morgan Carpenter, Daniela Crocetti and Sean Saifa Wall and published by Routledge on 27 December 2024.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a first experimental estimate of the size of the LGBTI population, including people with innate variations of sex characteristics. I was pleased to peer review this analysis.
I am honoured to have been appointed to the New South Wales government’s inaugural LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council
Events at the 2024 Paris Olympics sadly highlight the inability of a categorical system (weight), additional to sex, to allay concerns regarding participation by athletes purported to have innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex variations/differences of sex development).
Mauro Cabral Grinspan and myself are acknowledged for our contribution to research design in this groundbreaking systemic review by staff of the WHO on so-called “sex-normalising” surgeries in infancy.