Morgan Carpenter
| Morgan Carpenter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Community activist, researcher |
| Known for | Intersex activist, co-chair of Organisation Intersex International Australia |
| Website | morgancarpenter |
Morgan Carpenter is an intersex activist and researcher[1] who became president of Organisation Intersex International Australia in September 2013 and is currently a co-chair.[2] Australia's Gay News Network included him in their "LGBTI people to watch in 2014".[3]
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Activism
Morgan Carpenter helped found Organisation Intersex International Australia[2] and became president of the organisation in September 2013.[2][4][5] His intersex status was diagnosed as an adult, with a complex surgical history.[6][7]
Carpenter wrote OII Australia's submissions to Senate inquiries and appeared before a Senate hearing on anti-discrimination legislation, during activities that led to the adoption of an "intersex status" attribute in anti-discrimination law on 1 August 2013.[5][8][9][10]
In submissions to a Senate committee inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation, Carpenter called for "normalising" surgeries on intersex infants to end, saying that such interventions "erase" intersex from society.[11] He 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".[6][12][13][14]
While opposing use of "Disorders of Sex Development" or "DSD", as "pathologising" terminology,[15] Carpenter is named as a reviewer for a DSD Genetics website funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia.[16]
With recognition of non-binary gender identities in Australian regulations, and German birth certificates, Carpenter expressed concern that such developments are "not a solution to the needs of intersex infants": "normalising surgeries" remain the "most fundamental concern".[17][18][19][20] "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."[3][21] Nevertheless, Carpenter is the recipient of a passport with an 'X' sex marker.[19]
Carpenter took part in the "first United Nations Human Rights Council side event on intersex issues" in March 2014, alongside Mauro Cabral and representatives of Intersex UK and Zwischengeschlecht,[22]
In 2015, Carpenter joined an international advisory board for a first philanthropic Intersex Human Rights Fund established by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.[23]
Selected bibliography
Books
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Journal articles
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Editorials
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References
- ↑ Morgan Carpenter | The Guardian, The Guardian
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The OII Australia Board, Organisation Intersex International Australia, 12 October 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Board changes at OII Australia: Gina Wilson steps down, Gay News Network, 2 September 2013
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Intersex health – Morgan Carpenter's presentation to Health in Difference conference, OII Australia, 22 April 2013
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- ↑ A Watershed Moment, Gay News Network, 2 July 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Senate Inquiry reveals forced surgery on intersex children, Gay News Network, 25 September 2013.
- ↑ Concluding submission to the Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation, OII Australia, 12 September 2013.
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- ↑ Third sex option on birth certificates, Deutsche Welle, 1 November 2013.
- ↑ Third Gender: A Step Toward Ending Intersex Discrimination, Der Spiegel, 22 August 2013.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 ‘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.
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