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Sex Definitions and Gender Practices

An Update from Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

KATE CREGAN
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Abstract:

In recent years the Australian parliament has been considering the rights to protection from discrimination of intersex and gender identity disorder (GID) people. In 2013 such protections were made law in the amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, which in turn has influenced Senate inquiries into the medical treatment of intersex people. This year’s Australian report describes the purview and the potential ramifications of the inquiry of the Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs, published in October 2013, into the involuntary or coerced sterilization of intersex people in Australia.

Keywords

Australiaintersexfederal legislationGIDdiscriminationinvoluntary sterilization
Type
Special Section: Bioethics Beyond Borders
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 2014 , pp. 319 - 325
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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Notes

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11. See note 9, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee 2013, at 3.73.

12. See note 9, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee 2013, at 3.66.

13. See note 9, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee 2013, submission 8, page 3, cited at 3.5.

14. See note 9, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee 2013, at 1.11.

15. In this case, the Senate’s Community Affairs Reference Committee.

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17. See note 16, Community Affairs References Committee 2013, report 2, at 1.2.

18. See note 16, Community Affairs References Committee 2013, report 2, at 1.1.

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23. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 3.130, 3.133.

24. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 5.2.

25. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 5.7.

26. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 4.43, 5.30, 5.31, 5.32.

27. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 5.38, 5.41, 5.70, 5.72, 6.11.

28. See note 20, Commonwealth of Australia 2013, Second Report, at 6.25, 6.27, 1.5.