{"id":8378,"date":"2020-10-26T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=8378"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:57:47","slug":"intersex-awareness-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/intersex-awareness-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersex Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today marks Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex is a normal part of human diversity and The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) is proud to support intersex patients and the intersex community.<\/strong><\/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>\u201cAt The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, we adopt a multidisciplinary approach to care for individuals who have intersex variations and engage with a range of our departments to support this care &#8211;\u00a0 from endocrinology and gynaecology, to urology, ethics, psychology and more,\u201d RCH Clinical Coordinator of Endocrinology and Gynaecology, Chloe Hanna said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also work with community organisations to promote holistic care \u2013 such as peer support groups, physiotherapy and general practice clinics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow patients with intersex variations are medically managed has changed over time, largely though hearing the lived experiences of people with intersex variations. Our teams are currently undertaking projects to explore the psychosocial support needed for adolescents and their families, with the aim of developing new resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe said days like Intersex Awareness Day are important to help us understand the diversity of our community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntersex Awareness day is important as it reminds us, as health professionals of the diversity and vitality of this community, as well as highlight the critical support and advocacy pathways for people with intersex variations. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me personally, the voice of the intersex community plays an integral role in my practice. I feel privileged to meet so many amazing families and young people, and to listen and learn from those who advocate for the intersex individuals we support at the RCH.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People with intersex variations\u2019 is an umbrella term for people born with physical, hormonal or genetic sex-related features that are not typical for either male or female.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks Intersex Awareness Day! Intersex is a normal part of human diversity and The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) is proud to support intersex patients and the intersex community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":8380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8378","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\/8378","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8378\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}