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Australian Human Rights Commission: Ensuring health and bodily integrity
Congratulations to the Australian Human Rights Commission for this report, published in October 2021, on protecting the health and human rights of people born with variations of sex characteristics.
Keynote presentation, Intersex 2021 conference
This is Morgan Carpenter’s keynote presentation delivered at the Intersex 2021 conference at Dublin City University on 21 April 2021. It was recorded ahead of time and delivered on the first morning of the conference.
Introduction to intersex studies
The peer-reviewed journal Culture, Health and Sexuality has published a co-authored paper that introduces a special issue on intersex studies, and the interdisciplinary field of intersex studies.
Women athletes and impossible choices
Foreign Policy has kindly published a joint article by Morgan Carpenter and Katrina Karkazis on the impossible choices faced by women subjected to ‘sex testing’ in athletics.
The ‘normalisation’ of intersex bodies and ‘othering’ of intersex identities
Published in 2018 and now shareable here, this book chapter examines a contradiction: that policies aimed at protecting LGBTI populations coexist with policies and practices that harm people with intersex bodies.
Undisciplinary podcast interview
I was interviewed for a 10 September 2020 podcast Undisciplinary, a dive by Chris Mayes and Courtney Hempton into history, ethics and the politics of health.