Peer support

The core activity of the Group is to provide peer and family support, information and advocacy.^[2] It produces regular newsletters, known as dAISy, an annual conference, and regular meetings in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.^[2]

Physical integrity and bodily autonomy

The group has advocated on intersex human rights issues since at least the turn of the century, with submissions on discrimination and prenatal terminations dating back to 2003.^[1] Tony Briffa was published in Nature in April 2004, calling for an end to irreversible sex assignment treatments in infancy.^[7] The group has also made a similar submission to a 2013 Australian Senate inquiry on involuntary or coerced sterilisation of people with disabilities.^[8][9][10]

In March 2017, representatives of IPSA participated in an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand consensus "Darlington Statement" by intersex community organizations and others.^[11] The statement calls for legal reform, including the criminalization of deferrable intersex medical interventions on children, an end to legal classification of sex, and improved access to peer support.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

Education and awareness

Andie Hider, then president of IPSA, took part in the ABC television program Four Corners in July 2005.^[16] Current president Bonnie Hart appeared on Australian television with Intersex Human Rights Australia president Morgan Carpenter in March 2015,^[17] and in a short video for the National LGBTI Health Alliance QLife project, later that year.^[18]