Intersex, trans female, and CAMAB non-binary Australians can all become sex offenders.
Intersex Australians Must Join Sex Offender Registry To Get Medication
Cyproterone Acetate, better known as Androcur, is an anti-androgen medication taken by both male and female intersex individuals. A change in Australian health care policy, though, means that intersex people- those born with both male and female biological traits- can only get Androcur by signing themselves onto a potential sex offenders' list. The same is true for female-indentified transsexuals, who take the drug to suppress male hormones.
The problem is that the government only approves the drug for two reasons: for prostate cancer, and for registered sex offenders, since the androgen prohibitor reduces one's sex drive.
According to the Australian affiliate of the OII (Organisation Internationale des Intersexués):
Some intersex individuals need anti-androgen medication. Because those medicines are not recognized treatments for the specific diagnosis the only path to that medication is to register the intersex person in question 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 those who are different!!
In order to get the medication, the doctor must ask whether you're willing to on the offenders' registry, and those who say no might be denied the prescription. Then, in order to get it, the doctor has to call the Therapeutic Goods Administration to see whether or not they approve.
The Dawn Chorus is a feminist Australian blog with some of the more technical info, if you're interested.
(via Kate Bornstein)
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No mention is actually made of non-binary coercively-assigned-male-at-birth individuals, but I assume they would be in the same boat; likewise, there's some phrasing in this article that bothers me with regard to both intersex and trans people, but really the point is WHAT THE FUCK. Oh yeah, I'm back from my honeymoon and ready to hate the world again.
Mods: intersex tag?
Cyproterone Acetate, better known as Androcur, is an anti-androgen medication taken by both male and female intersex individuals. A change in Australian health care policy, though, means that intersex people- those born with both male and female biological traits- can only get Androcur by signing themselves onto a potential sex offenders' list. The same is true for female-indentified transsexuals, who take the drug to suppress male hormones.
The problem is that the government only approves the drug for two reasons: for prostate cancer, and for registered sex offenders, since the androgen prohibitor reduces one's sex drive.
According to the Australian affiliate of the OII (Organisation Internationale des Intersexués):
Some intersex individuals need anti-androgen medication. Because those medicines are not recognized treatments for the specific diagnosis the only path to that medication is to register the intersex person in question 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 those who are different!!
In order to get the medication, the doctor must ask whether you're willing to on the offenders' registry, and those who say no might be denied the prescription. Then, in order to get it, the doctor has to call the Therapeutic Goods Administration to see whether or not they approve.
The Dawn Chorus is a feminist Australian blog with some of the more technical info, if you're interested.
(via Kate Bornstein)
Source
No mention is actually made of non-binary coercively-assigned-male-at-birth individuals, but I assume they would be in the same boat; likewise, there's some phrasing in this article that bothers me with regard to both intersex and trans people, but really the point is WHAT THE FUCK. Oh yeah, I'm back from my honeymoon and ready to hate the world again.
Mods: intersex tag?