Morgan Carpenter

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.

Law reform in Canberra

Thank you to ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr for introducing and securing the passing of Australian-first legislation into the ACT Parliament to protect the human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex traits).

Body shaming is unacceptable, even if directed at vile people: an intersex critique of “small dick energy”

Thank you to co-authors Bo Laurent and Magda Rakita, and editor Brian D Earp, for collaborating on this article published by the University of Oxford Practical Ethics blog.

Lih-Mei Liao: “Variations in Sex Development”

My heartfelt congratulations to Lih-Mei Liao for this fantastic new resource aimed at mental health practitioners, clinicians and everyone else who works with clients with innate variations of sex characteristics.

Human rights at a time of instrumentalisation and backlash

I have a new book chapter out, on the anti-gender/anti-trans backlash and its impact on intersex organising. The entire book is peer-reviewed and available free (open access).