Showing posts with label intersex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intersex. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure
"It's an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, filled with family revelations and a beautiful twist ending that could rival Frank Capra for emotional pull." - Trent Dalton, Q Weekend
"It's a film that really reaches out, and when it ends we sit back with the feeling of having been told an interesting and important story from a brave and generous person." - Best Documentary Jury, Mix Copenhagen
"It is engaging viewing, even endearing, and feels like a quietly important film that ought to be widely seen." Inez Baranay, Metro Magazine
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Winner, Best Documentary (General) at ATOM Awards and #1 Film at Brisbane International Film Festival 2010 as voted by audiences.
Winner, Best Direction in a Documentary (Stand Alone) at 2012 Australian Directors Guild Awards.
Winner, Best Documentary at Mix Copenhagen 2011 and the John Deen Memorial Award, Spokane LGBT Film Festival.
Nominee, Best Documentary at IF Awards 2011 and Best Documentary Under One Hour at AACTA Awards 2011.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Intersex - Semenya
The following was taken from msnbc.com.
Go here for a further read
"The concern that women with XY chromosomes have a competitive advantage “is malarkey. We don’t segregate athletes by height,” said Genel, speaking from an international endocrinology conference in New York that has sessions on intersex issues.
Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, past president of the American College of Medical Genetics and a member of the IAAF panel, agreed: “Any elite athlete ... has a competitive advantage, or otherwise they wouldn’t be an elite athlete.”
Simpson, associate dean at Florida International University, said the issue should be simply whether men are masquerading as women. Semenya is clearly a woman, he said. "
I sit here and read all of this storm over Semenya. What I hear is someone being upset because Semenya WON. It is couced in terms of 'She is not a woman' or 'Unfair advantage'
We dont see the governing bodies testing men that lose for LOW levels testosterone
What an INTOLERANT CULTURE we live in.
Go here for a further read
"The concern that women with XY chromosomes have a competitive advantage “is malarkey. We don’t segregate athletes by height,” said Genel, speaking from an international endocrinology conference in New York that has sessions on intersex issues.
Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, past president of the American College of Medical Genetics and a member of the IAAF panel, agreed: “Any elite athlete ... has a competitive advantage, or otherwise they wouldn’t be an elite athlete.”
Simpson, associate dean at Florida International University, said the issue should be simply whether men are masquerading as women. Semenya is clearly a woman, he said. "
I sit here and read all of this storm over Semenya. What I hear is someone being upset because Semenya WON. It is couced in terms of 'She is not a woman' or 'Unfair advantage'
We dont see the governing bodies testing men that lose for LOW levels testosterone
What an INTOLERANT CULTURE we live in.
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