People with variations in sex characteristics in the ACT will have greater protections from deferrable and unnecessary medical interventions without their informed consent.
Ethnocultural Chapter In typical Unity fashion, the Ethnocultural chapter discussions kicked off with Unity-led motions to clarify existing NUS policy.
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Four dames and four knights have been appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2021. Years ago, when Mani Bruce Mitchell was talking with the late Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere, she told them Māori have always known about intersex people. “[Kaumātua] would say: ‘this child has been sent to us to teach us something’. What a beautiful way of looking at and holding difference,” Mitchell, who uses they/them pronouns and the honorific Mx, said. In this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours, Wellington-based Mitchell is believed to be one of the first intersex, non-binary Kiwis to be made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. They were awarded the honour for services to intersex advocacy and education, having helped found Intersex Awareness New Zealand (also known as the Intersex Trust of Aotearoa New Zealand/ITANZ) in 1997 – the first of its kind globally.