{"id":7593,"date":"2019-10-26T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2019-10-25T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T06:24:01","slug":"intersex-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/intersex-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersex Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7595 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2019\/10\/IAD2019-e1571982878208-400x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"144\" \/>October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day! The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) is proud to support intersex patients and the intersex community.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Intersex is a normal part of human diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The day is marked internationally and occurs on the anniversary of the first demonstration by intersex advocates at a medical conference at the American Academy of Paediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>RCH Clinical Coordinator of Endocrinology and Gynaecology, Chloe Hanna said \u201cAt The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, we adopt a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to care for individuals who have intersex variations and differences in sex development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support individuals and their families connecting with support and advocacy groups in the community and fully support intersex awareness day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018People with intersex variations\u2019 is an umbrella term for people born with physical, hormonal or genetic features that are neither wholly female nor wholly male; or a combination of female and male; or neither female nor male.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the health of people with intersex variations, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.health.vic.gov.au\/about\/populations\/lgbti-health\/health-of-people-with-intersex-variations\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day! The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) is proud to support intersex patients and the intersex community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":7595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}