speakers

Recommended Speakers

English-speaking countries:

International speaker and expert of gender and sexuality: Dr. Milton Diamond

Dr. Milton Diamond is a professor at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality. He is known for exposing the later life of David Reimer, a boy raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. Diamond, with the cooperation of Dr. H. Keith Sigmundson, who had been Reimer's supervising psychiatrist, tracked down the adult Reimer and found that John Money's sex reassignment of Reimer had failed. This case, which Diamond named that of "John/Joan" to protect Reimer's privacy, has become one of the most cited cases in the literature of psychiatry, psychology, women's studies, child development, and biology of gender. Diamond has also written extensively about abortion and family planning, pornography, intersexuality, transsexuality, and other sex- and reproduction-related issues for professional sex and legal journals, as well as lay periodicals. He is frequently interviewed for public media and legal matters, and ofter serves as an expert in court proceedings.

Diamond has been at University of Hawaii since 1967. He currently directs the John A. Burns School of Medicine's Pacific Center for Sex and Society, and is known for his research on the origins and development of sexual identity. He has been president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the International Academy of Sex Research. In 1999, he was awarded the British GIRES Research Prize, while in 2000 he was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual science. In 2005, Diamond was awarded the Norwegian Diversity Prize for his research efforts on behalf of transsexual and transgender people world-wide. (Source: Wikipedia)

E-mail: diamond@hawaii.edu

Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/

By country:

Australia:

Chris Somers xxy: Spokesperson for Intergender Issues

E-mail: curtishinkle@aol.com

More information: http://www.intersexualite.org/Intergender-Index.html

Gina Wilson: Outreach and support

E-mail: ginavampire@bigpond.com

Karen Gurney: Advisor, Legal issues

E-mail: karen@w-o-m-a-n.net

Canada:

Lucie Gosselin (French only)

Porte-parole sur les questions de genre

E-mail: lulu_gosselin@yahoo.ca

More information: http://www.intersexualite.org/F_US.html#anchor_26

Joëlle-Circé Laramée (English and French)

Vice-présidente / Vice president

E-mail:joellecirce2000@yahoo.ca

More information: http://www.intersexualite.org/F_US.html#anchor_22

André Lorek (English and French)

Outreach and support for the Intergender community

Soutien et sensibilisation pour la communauté Intergenre

E-mail: andre.alorek@gmail.com

More information: http://www.intersexualite.org/Andre_Lorek.html

New Zealand:

Mani Bruce Mitchell: Intersex Trust of Aotearoa NZ

Contacts:

Mani - Executive Director (04) 381 2221

E-mail:

mani.mitchell@xtra.co.nz

Web Site:

http://www.ianz.org.nz

Mail:

PO Box 9196, Marion Square, Wellington

Aim:

To bring a voice, visibility, establish rights and empowerment, for Intersexuals and support for parents and friends

Objectives:

Challenge the current notion of sex being exclusively binary (male or female) that intersex is an abnormality that requires a cure. "It’s OK to be different"

Services:

Provides advocacy, educational workshop, training for professionals

Yann Hoffman

Organisation Intersex International – Chair for OII’s Task force on sexuality E-mail: yann_hoffman@yahoo.co.nz

South Africa:

Sally Gross

Intersex Society of South Africa (ISOSA)

Suite No. 171

Private Bag X18

Rondebosch 7701

Cape Town, South Africa

Email: isosa@engender.org.za