Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
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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Le comité Visibilité Intersexe du Centre de lutte contre l’oppression des genres a été particulièrement actif dans les derniers jours! Nous remercions du fond du coeur tous les groupes qui nous ont appuyés, de même que les personnes qui ont participé aux événements. Merci au Centre de lutte contre l’oppression des genres, à l’OII-Francophonie, au…
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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 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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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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We thank AIC, SPLC, the law firms involved, and the Crawford family for suing and standing up for this intersex boy and intersex children everywhere! On May 14th, 2013, Advocates for Informed Choice, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and pro bono counsel for the private law firms of Janet, Jenner & Suggs and Steptoe & Johnson…
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Hida Viloria’s letter to the New York Times on genetic testing of elite female athletes appears in Sunday’s paper: To the Sports Editor: Re “No Clear Option for Testing,” June 18: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, a sportscaster said, in reference to the figure skater Johnny Weir, “We should make him pass a gender test.”…
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We invite readers to sign this petition by Advocates for an Informed Choice in the US: Dear Secretary Clinton & Ambassador Verveer, February 6, 2013 marks the tenth annual International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). Cosmetic genital surgery is a practice of cutting girls so that they can fit cultural norms,…
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OII Francophonie
Intersex Human Rights Australia
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OII Philippines
OII Europe
Intersex Ísland (Iceland)
Intersex Scandinavia
OII Italia
Intersexioni (Italia)
Internationale Vereinigung Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen (IVIM), OII Deutschland
Nederlands Netwerk Intersekse/DSD (Nederland)
OII Francophonie
OII United Kingdom
Verein Intersexueller Menschen Österreich (VIMÖ), OII Austria
Intersex South Africa
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