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Tony Briffa (legal and birth name Antoinette Briffa) is a Maltese-Australian[1] politician who is notable for being the world's first known intersex and non-binary mayor and public officeholder.[2]

Briffa has partial androgen insensitivity syndrome,[3] and is mayor of the City of Hobsons Bay, Victoria.[4][5]

Briffa was raised as a girl, then lived for a time as a man, and now chooses to live as both female and male.[6][3][7] Briffa is one of the first people to be public about their experience of being mistreated by doctors as a result of their intersex variation, and about intersex human rights.[6][7][8]

Early life

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Tony Briffa was born in Altona, Victoria with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome. In an article on SBS News, Antoinette explained that she had her first surgeries when she was just a baby and had further procedures including the removal of healthy gonads. She also explains that she was born with a female body including female genitalia.[9]

Speaking to a 2013 Australian Senate inquiry into the Involuntary or coerced sterilisation of intersex people in Australia, Briffa describes how doctors "convinced my mother to approve me to be castrated" (i.e. the removal of her internal testes without her consent): Vorlage:Blockquote

Career

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Briffa has worked in positions with the Department of Defence and the Australian Federal Police.[10] Briffa is the world's first openly intersex public mayor,[11] and "the first known intersex public office-bearer in the Western world",[12] serving as Deputy Mayor of the City of Hobsons Bay, Victoria, between 2009 and 2011, and Mayor between 2011 and 2012.[11][12][2][13][14] Briffa resigned as a local councillor on 14 February 2014, effective on the appointment of a successor.[15][16] In October 2016, Briffa was re-elected to Hobsons Bay City Council.[4]

Briffa has previously served as the President of the Genetic Support Network of Victoria, Board Member and Secretary of ILGA World, Co-executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia (formerly OII Australia)[17] and long term President of Intersex Peer Support Australia (formerly the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia;.[18] Briffa was also a Foster Carer of several children, a member of numerous Victorian Government Ministerial Advisory Committees since 2001, a current member of the Victorian Government LGBTIQ Taskforce. She is also the Co-chair of the Victorian Government's Intersex Expert Advisory Group.[19]

Selected bibliography

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  • Tony Briffa: Proud intersex person Tony Briffa tells story of self discovery (Memento des Originals vom 30 December 2014 im Internet Archive) In: News Corp Australia, 8 September 2014. Abgerufen im 30 December 2014 
  • Tony Briffa: Tony Briffa speaks at the Darwin Outgames Human Rights Forum. 15. Mai 2014, archiviert vom Original am 16. Juli 2014;.
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  • Tony Briffa: Intersex surgery disregards children's human rights. In: Nature. 428. Jahrgang, Nr. 6984, 15. April 2004, S. 695, doi:10.1038/428695a, PMID 15085107, bibcode:2004Natur.428Q.695B.
  • Parts of Briffa's life story are depicted in a short online animation.[7]

Personal life

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Birth certificate

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Tony Briffa's original and current birth certificate recognises her sex as female, but she had previously obtained a birth certificate with a blank sex classification.[3][8][20][21] Speaking to the Senate hearing on intersex sterilisation in March 2013, Briffa said:[8] Vorlage:Blockquote

Identity

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Briffa made the following statement: "I am very public about being born biologically partially female and partially male and that I was raised as a girl and lived as a woman until I was 30. I ask all my friends and colleagues to respect my sex as what nature made me; both female and male."[13] On their website Briffa posted:

“I feel very comfortable having accepted my true nature. I am not male or female, but both. I am grateful for the years I lived as a woman and the insight and experiences it gave me. I am still ‘Antoinette’ and have now also incorporated and accepted my male (‘Anthony’ or ‘Tony’) side. I feel whole. I’ll continue to live as Tony but I feel I am now at a point in my life where I can celebrate being different.”[22]

Marriage

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Legal issues presented by Tony Briffa's non-specific birth certificate meant that Briffa could not lawfully marry in Australia until late 2017. On 27 September 2013, Tony Briffa married Manja Sommeling in Dunedin, New Zealand.[23][24] Intersex Human Rights Australia notes:[21][25]

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Claudia Calleja: 'Healthy hermaphrodite' is both man and woman In: Times of Malta, 16 February 2015 
  2. ↑ a b Tony Briffa Of Australia's City Of Hobsons Bay Becomes World's First Intersex Mayor In: The Huffington Post, 10 December 2011 
  3. ↑ a b c About Tony. In: Briffa.org. 2012;.
  4. ↑ a b Hobsons Bay City Council election results 2016. In: Victorian Electoral Commission. 29. Oktober 2016;.
  5. ↑ Councillor Tony Briffa JP, Cherry Lake Ward. Abgerufen am 16. Februar 2021.
  6. ↑ a b Living outside 'male or female'. In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation 7.30 Report. 8. Juli 2013;.
  7. ↑ a b c Animation: NICHE IDAHO Campaign: "I", Tony (YourStory) Video animation. In: NICHE.
  8. ↑ a b c Vorlage:Citation
  9. ↑ The 'I' in LGBTIQ+: What it's like to be intersex in Australia. In: sbs.com.au. 25. Februar 2023;.
  10. ↑ Tony Briffa. Archiviert vom Original am 26. Mai 2019; abgerufen am 28. Juni 2021.
  11. ↑ a b Intersex Mayor Elected in Australia. In: Advocate.com. 9. Dezember 2011;.
  12. ↑ a b Briffa to march in mayoral robes. In: Star Observer. 8. Dezember 2011;.
  13. ↑ a b World's first intersex mayor, Cr Tony Briffa does not want to be called he or she. In: Herald Sun. 15. April 2013;.
  14. ↑ Melbourne elects Australia's first intersex Mayor. In: SameSame.com.au. 9. Dezember 2011, archiviert vom Original am 10. November 2013;.
  15. ↑ Intersex ex-mayor of Hobsons Bay Tony Briffa calls it quits. In: Herald Sun. 14. Februar 2014;.
  16. ↑ Resignation Announcement. Cr Tony Briffa, 14. Februar 2014;.
  17. ↑ Morgan Carpenter: We are now "Intersex Human Rights Australia". In: Intersex Human Rights Australia. 4. März 2018, abgerufen am 31. März 2018.
  18. ↑ Our Board. In: Intersex Human Rights Australia. 12. Oktober 2013;.
  19. ↑ LGBTIQ+ Taskforce. In: Government of Victoria. 6. März 2023;.
  20. ↑ OII VP Tony Briffa to wed partner in NZ ceremony – Gay News Network. In: Gay News Network. 27. September 2013, archiviert vom Original am 3. Januar 2017;.
  21. ↑ a b Congratulations, Tony and Manja! In: Organisation Intersex International Australia. 27. September 2013;.
  22. ↑ Tony Briffa Of Australia's City Of Hobsons Bay Becomes World's First Intersex Mayor In: Huffington Post, 10. Dezember 2011. Abgerufen am 4. Oktober 2017 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  23. ↑ Tony and Manja's little Kiwi wedding. In: SameSame.com.au. 8. Oktober 2013;.
  24. ↑ OII VP Tony Briffa to Wed Partner in NZ Ceremony. In: Gay News Network. 27. September 2013, archiviert vom Original am 3. Januar 2017;.
  25. ↑ Tony Briffa: Tony and Manja Briffa speak at marriage equality rally in Melbourne, 16 August 2014. 16. August 2014, archiviert vom Original am 19. September 2014;.
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