Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
What is intersex? THE term intersex was adopted by science in the early 20th century and applied to human beings whose biological sex cannot be classified as clearly male or female. An intersex person may have the biological attributes of both sexes or lack some of the biological attributes considered necessary to be defined as…
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We’re grateful & thrilled that HuffPostLive wanted to do a segment with intersex people about who we are, and that they asked OII Chair & OII-USA Director Hida Viloria to direct them to American intersex guests. Joining Viloria and OII-USA Associate Director Claudia Astorino are Professor Cary Gabriel Costello (author of the Intersex Roadshow blog),…
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Relocated to here: http://oiiuk.org/659/reflection-on-a-decade-of-oii-activism-in-an-english-speaking-context/
Morgan Carpenter’s opinion piece, “We Must Put An End to Normalizing Surgery,” explores positive developments in Australia: The clitoris is the only part of any human body that’s purely designed for pleasure. But is too much of a good thing a bad thing? Research on what constitutes “normal” genitalia, for both men and women, is…
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This post follows on from my post about how how things have ‘begun to change’ according to members of the team at University College London Hospital. These can be found on the OII-UK site: Holistic Medicine Without Autonomy! This post is made in the context of a piece recently published by Advocates for Informed Choice…
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OII global chair Director Hida Viloria has an essay, “Germany’s Third Gender Law Fails on Equality”, published in The Advocate. It discusses how this new law gives intersex babies less equal rights, how Australia’s current law only applies to intersex adults, not babies, and why it is so much better than Germany’s. Click here to…
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