Fierce rally for rights
A new group for intersex and/or gender diverse (ISGD) Victorians has been set up and members are set to attend their first rally in Canberra on May 11.
Still Fierce Melbourne 鈥� based on the Sydney group of the same name 鈥� has called for ISGD Melburnians and their supporters to attend what will be the first national rally for intersex and gender diverse rights.
ISGD is a recently coined term that stands for intersex, sex and/or gender diverse people including those who are transsexed, transsexual, transgendered, cross-dressers, androgynous, genderqueer, without sex and gender identity, and people with sex and gender culturally specific differences.
The term is being used instead of transgender, transsexual, intersex and cross-dressers in an attempt to unite gender diverse people to become a more inclusive and visible collective.
Still Fierce Melbourne say they are interested in political lobbying for ISGD rights at a national level and to raise awareness of the issues ISGD people face in the wider community.
The Melbourne chapter held their first 鈥榥o label鈥� picnic at the Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy last month to celebrate the second International Intersex, Sex and/or Gender Diverse Day.
The group plans to head to Canberra, joining with their Sydney counterparts, to call on the聽 Gillard Government to implement recommendations made in the 2009 Australian Human Rights Commission鈥檚 Sex Files Report.
The group will also call for full Medicare funding for medical and psychological procedures for ISGD people, an improvement to federal laws to protect ISGD people from discrimination and full marriage rights.
A bus from Melbourne to the rally in Canberra is being organised. Tickets start at $20.
To confirm a seat on the bus or find out more information about the rally, email [email protected]
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what is intersex and how does it fit into ISGD
I am an intersexed/transexed individual voice and there’s nothing silent about me. The only anti transness happening here is Oii’s desperate attempts to derail SF and the ISGD community. Has Oii actually thought of working with us as was my first impression? The drama will continue however I have more pressing issues to deal with as opposed to enduring the magical mystical world of Oii and its self appointed spokes people.
Go Still Fierce Melbourne!! you’re all doing such a great job. Still Fierce Sydney admires yr fierceness and dedication to getting to Canberra for the first ISGD rally.
Melbourne Still Fierce …you are awesome!
Melbourne Still Fierce demonstrates the groundswell that is building for an organisation that aspires to work for all sex and/or Gender Diverse people.
We still need strong organisations that represent various sub groups and advocate on their behalf.
If Still Fierce even in its infancy is already seen as a threat as it spreads nationally and unites traditionally diverse and fragmented people together to fight for all our basic human rights, then it is filling a real need in our community. It will only get stronger and better organised.
WE ARE FIERCE!
Kickarse article…………………….GO Melbourne Still Fierce….see you all In Canberra
Go Melbourne Still Fierce Go! Tirany is the result of the devision of the opressed. Together we stand all ISGD people
Please use revised version below : OII Australia rejects the terminology ISGD as not being truly inclusive of Intersex and as an appropriation of Intersex for what is essentially a Trans agenda. ISGD is Including Intersex in yet another unwanted umbrella term without wide intersex inclusion or consultation.
Only individuals with no knowledge of Intersex or the struggle for Intersex rights over the last twenty years would contemplate attempting to rename and realign us in the same way the medical profession did in 2006 with disordered terminology that likewise misconstrued Intersex.
The appropriation of Intersex silences Intersex voices and seeks agendas and rights at the expense of real Intersex rights. The rally鈥檚 call for the adoption of the sex files clearlty demonstrates the Trans agenda and the misunderstanding of Intersex issues. The sex files were not Inclusive of Intersex and contain recommendations that in our view are detrimental to Intersex. Where the sex files call for all sorts of procedures and protocols for the changing of sex on cardinal documents Intersex call for only one. The right to change those details on the basis of a mistaken assignment at the time of birth. Notions of Transitioning are meaningless to Intersex.
ISGD terminology is in fact anti Trans and the invention of a Transsexual woman seeking to do away with the term Transgender. See below .
The rally seeks to pursue what are essentially state issues at a federal parliament. They would do better to take their claims to COAG and to protest for trans rights there
OII Australia rejects the terminology ISGD as not being truly inclusive of Intersex and as an appropriation of Intersex for what is essentially a Trans agenda. ISGD is Including Intersex in yet another unwanted umbrella term without wide intersex inclusion or consultation.
Only individuals with no knowledge of Intersex or the struggle for Intersex rights over the last twenty years would contemplate attempting to rename and realign us in the same way the medical profession did in 2006 with disordered terminology that likewise misconstrued Intersex.
The appropriation of Intersex silences Intersex voices and seeks agendas and rights at the expense of real Intersex rights. The rally鈥檚 call for the adoption of the sex files clearlty demonstrates the Trans agenda and the misunderstanding of Intersex issues. The sex files were not Inclusive of Intersex and contain recommendations that in our view are detrimental to Intersex. Where the sex files call for all sorts of procedures and protocols for the changing of sex on cardinal documents Intersex call for only one. The right to change those details on the basis of a mistaken assignment at the time of birth. Notions of Transitioning are meaningless to Intersex.
ISGD terminology is in fact anti Trans and the invention of a Transsexual woman seeking to do away with the term Transgender. See below .
The rally seeks to pursue what are essentially state issues at a federal parliament. They would do better to take their claims to COAG and to protest for trans rights there
OII Australia rejects the terminology ISGD as being inclusive of Intersex and as an appropriation of Intersex for what is essentially a Trans agenda and as Including Intersex in yet another unwanted umbrella term without wide intersex inclusion or consultation.
Only individuals with no knowledge of Intersex or the struggle for Intersex rights over the last twenty years would contemplate attempting to rename and realign us in the same way the medical profession did in 2006 with disordered terminology that likewise misconstrued Intersex.
The appropriation of Intersex silences Intersex voices and seeks agendas and rights at the expense of real Intersex rights. The rally鈥檚 call for the adoption of the sex files clearlty demonstrates the Trans agenda and the misunderstanding of Intersex issues. The sex files were not Inclusive of Intersex and contain recommendations that in our view are detrimental to Intersex. Where the sex files call for all sorts of procedures and protocols for the changing of sex on cardinal documents Intersex call for only one. The right to change those details on the basis of a mistaken assignment at the time of birth. Notions of Transitioning are meaningless to Intersex.
ISGD terminology is in fact anti Trans and the invention of a Transsexual woman seeking to do away with the term Transgender. See below .
The rally seeks to pursue what are essentially state issues at a federal parliament. They would do better to take their claims to COAG and to protest for trans rights there.