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'''Morgan Carpenter''' is an [[intersex]] activist and researcher |
'''Morgan Carpenter''' is an [[intersex]] activist and researcher {{Citation needed|reason=reliable source needed to show that he is a researcher|date=February 2014}} who became president of [[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] in September 2013. Australia's ''Gay News Network'' included him in their "LGBTI people to watch in 2014".<ref name="watch-2014">[http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/feature/lgbti-people-to-watch-in-2014-12633.html LGBTI people to watch in 2014], Gay News Network, 1 January 2014.</ref> |
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== Activism == |
== Activism == |
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Morgan Carpenter helped found [[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] in 2009 |
Morgan Carpenter helped found [[Organisation Intersex International Australia]] in 2009 {{Citation needed|reason=reliable source needed to show he was a co-founder in 2009|date=February 2014}} and became president of the organisation on 1 September 2013, on the retirement of [[Gina Wilson]]. Carpenter was previously the organisation's secretary.<ref name="changes">[http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/changes-at-oii-as-trailblazer-gina-wilson-retires/109176 Changes At OII As Trailblazer Gina Wilson Retires ], [[Star Observer]], 13 September 2013</ref><ref>[http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/board-changes-at-oii-australia-gina-wilson-steps-down-11841.html Board changes at OII Australia: Gina Wilson steps down], Gay News Network, 2 September 2013</ref><ref name="oiiboard">[http://oii.org.au/information/board/, The OII Australia Board], Organisation Intersex International Australia, 12 October 2013.</ref> His intersex status was diagnosed as an adult, with a complex surgical history.<ref name="hid" /> Carpenter has played an important role in making the organisation's case to a Senate committee inquiry on ''Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia'', and securing the inclusion of 'intersex status' in anti-discrimination legislation. |
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=== Anti-discrimination legislation === |
=== Anti-discrimination legislation === |
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Revision as of 13:19, 9 February 2014
Morgan Carpenter | |
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| Born | 1966 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Community activist |
| Known for | Intersex activist, president of Organisation Intersex International Australia |
| Website | oii |
Morgan Carpenter is an intersex activist and researcher [citation needed] who became president of Organisation Intersex International Australia in September 2013. Australia's Gay News Network included him in their "LGBTI people to watch in 2014".[1]
Activism
Morgan Carpenter helped found Organisation Intersex International Australia in 2009 [citation needed] and became president of the organisation on 1 September 2013, on the retirement of Gina Wilson. Carpenter was previously the organisation's secretary.[2][3][4] His intersex status was diagnosed as an adult, with a complex surgical history.[5] Carpenter has played an important role in making the organisation's case to a Senate committee inquiry on Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia, and securing the inclusion of 'intersex status' in anti-discrimination legislation.
Anti-discrimination legislation
Writing in The Guardian, Morgan Carpenter described intersex as a biological issue:[6]
Intersex people have queer bodies. We disprove a binary worldview. Some of us also have queer identities, reflecting our embodiment. This is why intersex is a separate attribute in the sex discrimination amendment. It's not a matter of sexual orientation or gender identity – we have just as diverse sexualities and gender identities as everyone else.
Carpenter wrote OII Australia's submissions to Senate inquiries and appeared before a Senate hearing.[4][7] A Senate of Australia inquiry into anti-discriminination legislation supported the approach of Organisation Intersex International Australia and "intersex status" was added to the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013, which passed into law on 1 August 2013.[8][9][10]
Bodily autonomy
In submissions to a Senate committee inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation, Carpenter has called for "normalising" surgeries on intersex infants to end, saying that such interventions "erase" traits intersex from society.[11] WP:SYNTH He has criticised "psychosocial" rationales for surgery that include "reduced opportunities for marriage or intimate relationships” and reduced “capacity to earn an income", stigmatisation and "risk of social isolation”.[12][13][5][14][15]
Writing at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The Drum, Morgan Carpenter, the president of OII Australia wrote:[16]
The Senate Committee has accepted that the status quo is not acceptable; 'normalising' surgical interventions on infants should be deferred until they are of an age to give consent themselves. It recommends the development of national standards, and legal oversight of all therapeutic and non-therapeutic surgeries on intersex infants.
The Senate Committee has changed the debate on the correct treatment of intersex differences. If adopted, its recommendations will effectively protect the rights of intersex children and future adults...
We should all feel good about what we've got, whatever our shape or size.
Those recommendations include national guidelines developed with community input, and legal scrutiny of clinical decisions[17]
While opposing use of "Disorders of Sex Development" or "DSD", as "pathologising" terminology,[18] Carpenter is named as a reviewer for a "DSD Genetics" website funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council Australia.[19]
Identification documents
Following the recognition of non-binary gender identities in Australian regulations, and German "third sex" birth certificates, Carpenter has expressed concern that such developments are "not a solution to the needs of intersex infants", saying that "normalising surgeries" remain the "most fundamental concern".[20][21][22][23] "It’s important to recognise that intersex is not synonymous with gender diversity,” Carpenter explains. “Many intersex people are men or women and it’s crucial not to coerce them into a third option. It’s also important to avoid using infants and children as the means to pursue rights and liberties for adults."[1][24][25] Nevertheless, as the recipient of a passport with an 'X' sex descriptor, Carpenter says that travel to the United States is impossible with that passport,[22] and that both "same sex marriage" and "opposite sex marriage" exclude some intersex people, who "would need to seek and obtain a new birth certificate to be eligible to marry their partners – certification that reflects governments’ demands, not individual liberty or biology."[26]
References
- ^ a b LGBTI people to watch in 2014, Gay News Network, 1 January 2014.
- ^ Changes At OII As Trailblazer Gina Wilson Retires , Star Observer, 13 September 2013
- ^ Board changes at OII Australia: Gina Wilson steps down, Gay News Network, 2 September 2013
- ^ a b The OII Australia Board, Organisation Intersex International Australia, 12 October 2013.
- ^ a b Intersex health – Morgan Carpenter's presentation to Health in Difference conference, OII Australia, 22 April 2013
- ^ Australia can lead the way for intersex people, Morgan Carpenter in The Guardian, 18 June 2013
- ^ Board changes at OII Australia: Gina Wilson steps down, Gay News Network, 2 September 2013
- ^ We welcome the Senate Inquiry report on the Exposure Draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012, Organisation Intersex International Australia, 21 February 2013
- ^ On the historic passing of the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Act 2013, Organisation Intersex International Australia, 25 June 2013
- ^ A Watershed Moment, Gay News Network, 2 July 2013.
- ^ Forced intersex surgery ‘genital mutilation’, Star Observer, 24 July 2013.
- ^ COLUMN – Intersex rights: the next fight, Star Observer, 25 October 2013.
- ^ LGBTI Health Update, Vol. 3, No. 4, May 2013, National LGBTI Health Alliance, May 2013
- ^ It's time to stop cosmetic genital surgery on intersex infants, OII Australia, 18 July 2013
- ^ Senate Inquiry reveals forced surgery on intersex children, Gay News Network, 25 September 2013.
- ^ It's time to defend intersex rights, Morgan Carpenter at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Drum, 15 November 2013
- ^ Intersex advocates address findings of Senate Committee into involuntary sterilisation, Gay News Network, 28 October 2013.
- ^ Concluding submission to the Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation, OII Australia, 12 September 2013.
- ^ DSD Genetics, Disorders of Sex Development Research Website, 9 October 2013
- ^ Third sex option on birth certificates, Deutsche Welle, 1 November 2013.
- ^ Third Gender: A Step Toward Ending Intersex Discrimination, Der Spiegel, 22 August 2013.
- ^ a b ‘X’ gender: Germans no longer have to classify their kids as male or female, RT, 3 November 2013.
- ^ Intersex activist questions German law reform, Star Observer, 8 November 2013.
- ^ ACT government bill will introduce wider gender identification, Lisa Cox in Canberra Times, 28 November 2013.
- ^ Australia embraces new gender guidelines, Agence France-Presse, June 14, 2013.
- ^ Day to celebrate and build awareness of intersex lives, Star Observer, 23 October 2013.