Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
PSYCHOLOGIST Paul Martin has written a short article about the widespread neglect of intersex: Our communities rarely talk about or even understand intersex which is a part of our ‘LGBTI’, so it may as well stand for ‘invisible’. There are more intersex people out there than you think -the statistics show that almost 2% of…
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, may we respectfully suggest that, when preparing officer training materials like your RAIO Directorate – Officer Training RAIO Combined Training Course module named Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims, you might wish to seek advice from a range of intersex organizations. Wider consultation…
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CHRISTIANE Völling, the German intersex woman who successfully sued the surgeon who removed her female reproductive organs as a teenager without her consent, is featured in this segment on intersex in German TV show Nano. Note: Many thanks to our ally in Germany who drew this item to our attention.
Author: Chris Somers xxy Date of first publication at OII Australia.com: 8 February 2010 Copyright: International © copyright by Chris Somers xxy 2010 About Chris Somers xxy: The author, namely Kai Chris Somers xxy of this presentation is: 47 XXY, who is believed by medical investigation to have ovaries, a collapsed internal vagina and who…
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Author: Bhakti Ananda Goswami, board member, OII Disclaimer: This article represents the views of its author and does not represent Organisation Intersex International policy nor that of its affiliates. The views of the author may well have changed since this article was written. WHILE some modern sexologists and other authors argue that the human species…
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Author: Marie-Noëlle Baechler, OII Switzerland Year of first publication: 2006 Translation: Curtis E. Hinkle, from the French original Disclaimer: The following is written within a Swiss legal and medical context and may not apply to laws in different states in the United States or in other countries. This is provided as a service to those…
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Author: Hida Viloria, Director or OII USA, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International – OII Date of first publication in OII Australia.com: 15 March 2010 UNLIKE most other minority groups, the most tangible discrimination which intersex people have faced has been medical. I feel that this is partly responsible for why some intersex organizations have remained…
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5-ALPHA reductase deficiency is similar to the androgen resistance syndromes – AIS. Individuals with 5-alpha reductase deficiency have XY chromosomes and testes but appear phenotypically female at birth. This variation results from the body’s failure to convert testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, the more powerful form of androgen responsible for the development of male external genitalia. Despite a…
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