Human Rights

ILGA-Europe’s statement on the occasion of the International Intersex Awareness Day (26 October)

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From ILGA EUROPE: Today, ILGA-Europe joins intersex organisations around the world to mark the Intersex Awareness Day. ILGA-Europe believes that this day is a great opportunity for the raising of awareness on intersex issues, generate greater understanding and call for the elaboration of human rights in respect to intersex people. The foundation of all discrimination…
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The Times of India: “Male, female and the third option”

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The Times of India: “Male, female and the third option”

Payoshni Mitra writes in The Times of India on the case of athlete Pinki Pramanik, arrested for rape in a case where she is alleged to have promised to marry a women “but later denied” – see “Gold medallist Pinki Pramanik accused of being male, held for ‘rape’”. Mitra, an independent researcher on gender and…
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EU report on discrimination against intersex and trans people

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EU report on discrimination against intersex and trans people

The European Commission has just released a ground-breaking report on discrimination against intersex and trans people, titled “Discrimination against trans and intersex people on the grounds of sex, gender identity and gender expression”. It’s an excellent study, both in documenting legislation, in its conclusions and in how it manages to address two distinct groups of…
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OII Australia and OII Aotearoa/NZ release submission on the DSM-5 and SOC-7

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OII Australia, together with OII Aotearoa/NZ, today released a submission [PDF] to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), regarding the draft Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition. The APA is the body that, until 1973, classified homosexuality as a mental disorder. The APA currently regards gender non-conformity to be a disorder, including gender non-conformity by intersex people.

Intersex Human Rights: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Second Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex human rights the complete lack of rights for intersex people. For intersex to have any rights at all we are required to submit to the myth that we are wholly male or female. We must allow our differences to be surgically or hormonally removed…
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Intersex Domestic Violence: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Ninth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex domestic violence and how that affects intersex lives. What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought to be typical of both male and female at once. That is, we may…
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Intersex and Religion: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Eleventh Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and religion. What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought to be typical of both male and female at once. That is, we may be thought of as being male…
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Intersex and Medicine: The Fourteen Days of Intersex

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ON the Fourth Day of Intersex we draw your attention to intersex and medicine, of intersex and its uneasy relationship with medicine and medical practitioners What is intersex? Intersex people are people who, as individuals, have congenital genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought to be typical of both male and female at once….
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