Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand [SEP] inception
Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand
Founded by Mani Mitchell in 1996, Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, also known as Intersex Awareness New Zealand is a national advocacy and peer support organisation for intersex people in New Zealand.
Mission.
ITANZ is a charitable trust that provides education, information and training on intersex issues for organisations and individual professionals. Executive Director Mani Mitchell is known as New Zealand's first "out" intersex person.
Activities.
The Trust works with the Human Rights Commission, Rainbow Youth in Auckland
intersex medical interventions, shame and secrecy.
Notable civil society institutions and individuals include the Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand, Mani Mitchell and refugee Eliana Rubashkyn. Mitchell narrated the documentary "Intersexion" in 2012.
In March 2017, representatives of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand participated in an Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand consensus "Darlington Statement" by intersex community organizations and others. The statement calls for legal reform, including the criminalization of deferrable intersex medical interventions on children, an end to legal classification of sex, and