OII’s Viloria & Astorino on HuffPostLive

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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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Smoke and mirrors

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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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Holistic medicine without autonomy!

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Following a discussion with some friends about the team at UCLH, the issue of ‘changes in practice’ came up. I, like several others, through conversations with members of that team, was under the impression that these changes suggested that surgical interventions in the lives of intersex children before they could themselves consent were being reduced….
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OII Thanks UN’s Navi Pillay

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On December 10, 2012, a group of over two dozen intersex organizations and leaders from around the world, spearheaded by the Organisation Intersex International (OII), and our affiliates in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South and North America, published and delivered an open letter titled, “A Call for the Inclusion of Human Rights for Intersex People”,…
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