Morgan Carpenter

Is It Ever OK to Reclassify Someone Out of Their Birth-Observed Sex Without Personal Consent? How Do We Manage Competing Methods of Classifying Sex?

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).

intersignia, on Etsy

Check out my Etsy store, intersignia, for beautiful and hardwearing enamel pins

“Shaping bodies, shaping narratives”, PhD thesis on intersex, epistemic injustice and human rights

I have completed my PhD studies in bioethics at Sydney Health Ethics, in the University of Sydney School of Public Health. The doctorate was conferred on 29 January 2024.

Routledge Handbook chapter on “The health and human rights of people with intersex variations”

It’s an honour to have a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights, edited by Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Carmen H. Logie, Christy E. Newman, Richard Parker.

Protecting people with intersex variations: a new benchmark in the Australian Capital Territory

Thank you to the Australian Journal of Human Rights for publishing this peer-reviewed commentary on reforms to protect people with intersex variations from harmful medical practices in the ACT.

Fixing bodies and shaping narratives

Thanks to the editors and reviewers of Clinical Ethics journal for accepting this manuscript for publication, on epistemic injustice and the responses of medicine and bioethics to intersex human rights demands.