Intersex Australians are Placed on a Sex Offenders Register

[Wolfman1982]

http://oiiaustralia.com/4117/intersex-australians-sex-offenders-register/

Extract from Intersex and the Organisation Intersex International Australia, Polare 80 (the emphasis is ours):

O.I.I. Australia supports the right to appropriate medication. Where treatment protocols call for standard medication, those who do not fit the diagnosis paradigm cannot readily access appropriate medication. For instance, a diagnosis that classifies an intersex person as male will not allow that person access to apparently female medications despite the person being female. Medicine often assumes standard sex and gender outcomes for intersex, so that a person who has A.I.S. diagnosis is always assumed to be female. Access to surgery and medication for that person as a male can only be obtained by being diagnosed with a mental illness. Some intersex individuals need anti-androgen medication. Because these medicines are not recognised treatments for the specific diagnosis the only path to that medication is to register the intersex person as a potential sex offender at the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Canberra. That register also contains the names of numerous transsexual individuals who can only gain access to anti-androgens because of this inappropriate medication protocol. This is an outrage against the sex and gender diverse!

Extract from Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) paper Sex and gender diversity, Report of initial consultation:

Other responses noted that the health system is not inclusive of people who are sex and gender diverse. Several responses mentioned that in order to receive specific hormone treatment a person must be labeled a sexual deviant.

Androcur is prescribed to block and reduce production of testosterone in men with testicular cancer, prostate cancer or other androgen-aggravated cancer or to convicted sex offenders to reduce sex drive and chemically castrate if taken in high doses. Because one of these reasons must be given to prescribe Androcur, and the patient is not a male with cancer, the one left is ‘reduction of drive’ – and this means, that to have this medication the patient will then have the letters “SD” on their medical record for Sexual Deviant.

Extract from the AHRC’s Sex Files: Sex and Gender Diversity forum (names replaced with initials, and the forum itself has now been closed down):

B., you might be interested to know that one of my friends has been denied a “Blue Card” to work with kids, as she has been on Androcur and is listed as a Sexual Deviant, and I understand that stays on your records at HIC central for all time. K.A.N.

For those who may doubt, deny or accuse us of lying:

We have read your comments on other websites. Members of OII Australia have been placed on this list of ‘sexual deviants.’

When it becomes clear that you would greatly benefit from taking Cyproterone Acetate, your doctor is required to ask you if you will assent to being placed on the register, they warn you of the implications, and you can choose to go on it or not to, bearing in mind that choosing in the negative may not be beneficial for your medical treatment. Then, each time a prescription needs to be issued, your doctor must phone the Therapeutic Goods Administration, quote your reference number, wait for a yes or a no, and then issue the prescription.

Similar ordeals are required of intersex males whose bodies require HRT incorporating testosterone. Morgan has written an article about what he goes through to obtain testosterone and how it intimately affects his life HRT: Suffering the System, Not the Medical Condition.

These processes are deeply humiliating – and the ongoing humiliations sometimes cause intersex people to stop taking all the medication they need (at least one member of OII Australia, for example). Intersex lives even in Australia are hard enough – impossible for some. These practices have got to stop – they serve to reinforce that intersex Australians are second-class citizens, or as some have so aptly put it, legally subhuman.

Screenshot, Information in the PBS Schedule about Androcur-100:

http://oiiaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/pbs_androcur_screenshot_528.jpg

http://oiiaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/intersex_sex_offenders_list_528.png

 

[Etoile]

How very bizarre. I'm having trouble with the fundamentals: why does a high sex drive make you deviant? I mean, why do ONLY convicted sex offenders get reduction of drive? Or why does have a high sex drive make you an offender? Surely nymphos (psychiatric condition, interfering with life enjoyment) need their drive medically reduced but haven't done anything WRONG. Crime should be what puts you on the list, not taking a certain drug. It's like bizarro world.

 

[Wolfman1982]

How very bizarre. I'm having trouble with the fundamentals: why does a high sex drive make you deviant? I mean, why do ONLY convicted sex offenders get reduction of drive? Or why does have a high sex drive make you an offender? Surely nymphos (psychiatric condition, interfering with life enjoyment) need their drive medically reduced but haven't done anything WRONG. Crime should be what puts you on the list, not taking a certain drug. It's like bizarro world.

Well, I like to call such things, when it includes the UK or Australia for that matter, that they are in a Victorian Era version 2.0, when it comes to censorship and loads of other crazy things. So yeah, it is a bizarre world, and is Bizarro the comic we are talking about ?

 

[Etoile]

Nope, I forgot about Bizarro the comic! You're right that it refers to the comic, but I was just using a silly version of the world bizarre.

 

[JimmyHartley]

Well, I like to call such things, when it includes the UK or Australia for that matter, that they are in a Victorian Era version 2.0, when it comes to censorship and loads of other crazy things. So yeah, it is a bizarre world, and is Bizarro the comic we are talking about ?

So, you're saying that the whole point of this is to call out Australia?
We do realise things like this are an attrocity against freedom, that doesn't mean we all support such stupid loopholes.
Many individuals are actively bringing attention to these issues and trying to change such laws.
Now get off your slacktivist high horse or go on a tirade against another country.

 

[Safe_Bet]

So, you're saying that the whole point of this is to call out Australia?
We do realise things like this are an attrocity against freedom, that doesn't mean we all support such stupid loopholes.
Many individuals are actively bringing attention to these issues and trying to change such laws.
Now get off your slacktivist high horse or go on a tirade against another country.

Oopooommmmmhhhh! You are SO gonna get it for pointing out his xenophobia.

**Wolfman starts callin you a man hating bully in 4, 3, 2, 1... **

 

[JimmyHartley]

Oopooommmmmhhhh! You are SO gonna get it for pointing out his xenophobia.

**Wolfman starts callin you a man hating bully in 4, 3, 2, 1... **

-Cowers-

 

[Etoile]

Uh, I thought the point was to refer to UK/Aus history (since they are related) in terms of Victorianism. The Victorian era didn't happen outside UK/Aus. Hence Wolfman referring to UK/Aus when talking about "Victorian Era 2.0" - y'all gotta know your history before you start making assumptions...