In 2021, Te Ngākau Kahukura hosted a series of webinars for the youth sector, sharing the expertise and lived experience of those working with and amongst rainbow rangatahi.
In our second webinar, Jelly O’Shea and Joey Macdonald talked about what bodily autonomy and self-determination can mean for intersex and trans people.
About the presenters
Jelly O'Shea (she/they) is an intersex person who is the current Communications and Project Manager for Intersex Aotearoa. Jelly is a community worker who thrives on collaboration and creative responses to communication strategies that empower marginalised people. Jelly spends their days demanding that everyone should have the right of bodily autonomy, and evenings making jewellery at their studio hideout.
Joey Macdonald (they/them) is a nonbinary trans queer pākehā living in West Auckland working for Te Ngākau Kahukura as the Training Lead. They're particularly interested in wrangling health professionals and empowering community workers to improve health and social services for people who are trans, queer, intersex, takatāpui, etc. They want to see recognition of self-determination in the form of high quality informed consent healthcare and recognition of the strong relational skills that rainbow/ intersex/ trans/ queer/ takatāpui people (and organisations led by those people) have developed in the face of intergenerational systemic injustice.
Learn more
The Darlington Statement: a 2017 consensus statement on intersex human rights priorities by Australian and Aotearoa intersex organisations and independent advocates.
Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) works to promote the health, wellbeing and rights of transgender people (check out their Symposium this September and Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Health 2020 about trans health).
Intersex Aotearoa provides information, education and training for organisations and professionals who provide services to intersex people and their families.
InterACT resources for intersex people, parents and medical providers - interACT is based in the US.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa offers information, advocacy, and wrap around support for transgender people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds.