Articles by Hida

OII-USA’s Viloria to be published by Oxford U Press in college textbook

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OII-USA/ICE Executive Director Hida Viloria’s May 2014 essay, “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity,” will be published by Oxford University Press this December in the college textbook, QUEER: A Reader for Writers, by Jason Schneiderman. The essay elaborates on the importance of “intersex” rhetoric and de-pathologization in attaining human rights for intersex people. Our gratitude…
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Council of Europe’s statement on intersex people’s need for equal rights!

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In recognition of the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17th, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights has released the statement, A boy or a girl or a person — intersex people lack recognition in Europe. The statement examines the intense difficulties and human rights abuses  – such as “normalizing”…
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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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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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Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents

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Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents

Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents By Hida Viloria on 16 May 2013. I am thrilled to announce OII-USA’s new, free resource for parents of children with intersex variations. As Chairperson of OII, and Founder and Executive Director of OII-USA,  I have often been asked if we have a pamphlet that provides parents with information in a balanced, educational,…
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Calling a spade a spade; intersex is intersex

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  A few days ago, I received an excerpt from an article-in-progress by a law professor that stated that intersex is increasingly included as a subcategory of transgender.  I’m grateful that she contacted me for feedback, and confident that she’ll edit this out, but I’m shocked at how much people continue to obfuscate intersex.  Why…
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