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Morgan Carpenter is an intersex activist and researcher〔(Morgan Carpenter | The Guardian ), The Guardian〕 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".〔(LGBTI people to watch in 2014 ), Gay News Network, 1 January 2014.〕 == Activism == Morgan Carpenter helped found Organisation Intersex International Australia〔 and became president of the organisation in September 2013.〔(The OII Australia Board ), Organisation Intersex International Australia, 12 October 2013.〕〔(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〕 His intersex status was diagnosed as an adult, with a complex surgical history.〔 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.〔〔(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〕 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.〔(Forced intersex surgery ‘genital mutilation’ ), Star Observer, 24 July 2013.〕 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".〔(Intersex health – Morgan Carpenter's presentation to Health in Difference conference ), OII Australia, 22 April 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.〕 While opposing use of "Disorders of Sex Development" or "DSD", as "pathologising" terminology,〔(Concluding submission to the Senate Inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation ), OII Australia, 12 September 2013.〕 Carpenter is named as a reviewer for a DSD Genetics website funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia. 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".〔(Third sex option on birth certificates ), Deutsche Welle, 1 November 2013.〕〔(Third Gender: A Step Toward Ending Intersex Discrimination ), Der Spiegel, 22 August 2013.〕〔〔(Intersex activist questions German law reform ), Star Observer, 8 November 2013.〕 "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."〔〔(ACT government bill will introduce wider gender identification ), Lisa Cox in Canberra Times, 28 November 2013.〕 Nevertheless, Carpenter is the recipient of a passport with an 'X' sex marker.〔(‘X’ gender: Germans no longer have to classify their kids as male or female ), RT, 3 November 2013.〕 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, In 2015, Carpenter joined an international advisory board for a first philanthropic Intersex Human Rights Fund established by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morgan Carpenter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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