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Upholding rights of intersex people to obtain early health records
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Upholding rights of intersex people to obtain early health records
Wednesday 28 March 2018, 04:00 AM
The Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand recently approached the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for advice on an issue faced by many intersex people in New Zealand – accessing medical records. ITANZ is part of an intersex advocacy movement and works to improve awareness, information, education and training about intersex people. Policy adviser in the privacy commissioner’s office, Vanessa Blackwood looks at the challenges involved
A significant hurdle some intersex people have experienced is that the health professions have not retained the medical records of those early life pr