Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
UGANDAN LGBTI human rights activist David Kato was brutally murdered just over a year ago and fellow African LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine writes a letter to the man who was so beloved and continues to be remembered by many. In the face of the widespread exclusion of intersex people from human rights reforms in the so-called global north, it is…
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A number of erstwhile allies of intersex people suppose that intersex people want the legislative creation of a third gender or a third sex. Sex – male and female under the sex binary belief system, and gender – man and woman under the gender binary belief system, are two very different though related things. The reality is…
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THE Scottish people and media continue to impress us with their ability to say the word intersex and to pronounce intersex-including acronym LGBTI. That the people of Scotland and its media are not too frightened to say intersex and LGBTI and to cast them in print or pixels is an object lesson to the people…
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Announcement: Transitioning Africa GENDER DynamiX (GDX) and the Support Initiative for People with atypical sexual Development (SIPD) have taken their collaboration in the Exchange Programmes in 2010 and 2011 a step further and, together with Transgender and Intersex Africa (TIA), will concentrate its efforts mainly on advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Forming the tripartite will further solidify…
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AN intersex activist in the United States of America has placed a petition online, asking for the end of intersex genital mutilation – IGM – in that country. Female genital mutilation – FGM – is illegal in the US but intersex genital mutilation continues unabated. Melissa Lynn’s petition is directed at Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department…
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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.
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