New book: “Intersex, Variations of Sex Characteristics, DSD: Critical Approaches”

By Surya Monro, Adeline Berry, Morgan Carpenter, Daniela Crocetti and Sean Saifa Wall and published by Routledge on 27 December 2024.

Australian Bureau of Statistics: first data on LGBTI population size

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.

Appointment to the new NSW LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council

I am honoured to have been appointed to the New South Wales government’s inaugural LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council

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).

Systematic review identifies concerns with current medical rationales for “sex-normalising” interventions in childhood

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.

Global bioethics statement calls for end to medically unnecessary intersex surgeries

I’m pleased to be a contributor to this global bioethics consensus statement, led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and with contributions made by more than 150 international experts from more than 24 countries.