People With Disability Australia has called upon the Australian government to investigate instances of involuntary sterilization of persons with disabilities and the coerced use of “sex normalizing” surgery on children born with intersex variations. There is no federal law in Australia that prohibits these activities, and laws vary from state to state, making an accurate count of the total number of persons subjected to these practices difficult to come by. A Senate committee investigation last year noted that despite “incomplete” state records, there were dozens of applications for sterilization approved in the last decade throughout the country. Nontherapeutic sterilization has been identified as a form of torture by the UN, and People with Disability Australia have submitted a report to the UN detailing the allegations.