Comments on: A terrible invasion of privacy http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2009/09/15/a-terrible-invasion-of-privacy/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:46:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: George McBarnes http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2009/09/15/a-terrible-invasion-of-privacy/#comment-254004 George McBarnes Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:49:43 +0000 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/?p=561#comment-254004 Well, just take a look on the resent Murdoch case in the UK - incredible stuff! Well, just take a look on the resent Murdoch case in the UK - incredible stuff!

]]> By: zwischengeschlecht.org http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2009/09/15/a-terrible-invasion-of-privacy/#comment-252509 zwischengeschlecht.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:07:40 +0000 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/?p=561#comment-252509 dear anton harbinger thanks for outlining the ethical side of this global field day for bad journalism. and also for asking to try to do good as well. however, the core problem obviously isn't "public understanding of complex contemporary ideas of gender and sexual identity", but the taboo, discrimination and massive human rights violations of the people who are or - like semenya, are suspected of - being intersexed. the semenya "case" is only the latest in a long row in the sports world of unfair, harmful and and hurtful treatments of actual/suspected intersexed athletes, see e.g. maria patino, santhi soundarajan or sarah gronert. also, their plight goes far beyond sports, e.g the genital surgery (many call it mutilation) which is forced on many of them while they're still toddlers. as far as i know, up to now the only south african journal which rose to the challenge was the witness, which brought some articles by/about sally gross. basic information on intersex and human rights abuses can be found at http://isna.org and http://intersex.shadowreport.org (see e.g. 3.3) see also http://intersex.org.za/ thanks for your consideration dear anton harbinger

thanks for outlining the ethical side of this global field day for bad journalism. and also for asking to try to do good as well.

however, the core problem obviously isn’t “public understanding of complex contemporary ideas of gender and sexual identity”, but the taboo, discrimination and massive human rights violations of the people who are or - like semenya, are suspected of - being intersexed.

the semenya “case” is only the latest in a long row in the sports world of unfair, harmful and and hurtful treatments of actual/suspected intersexed athletes, see e.g. maria patino, santhi soundarajan or sarah gronert.

also, their plight goes far beyond sports, e.g the genital surgery (many call it mutilation) which is forced on many of them while they’re still toddlers.

as far as i know, up to now the only south african journal which rose to the challenge was the witness, which brought some articles by/about sally gross.

basic information on intersex and human rights abuses can be found at http://isna.org and http://intersex.shadowreport.org (see e.g. 3.3)

see also http://intersex.org.za/

thanks for your consideration

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