Organisation Internationale des Intersexués – Organization Intersex International
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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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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Author: Hida Viloria, Director or OII USA, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International – OII Date of first publication in OII Australia.com: 15 March 2010 UNLIKE most other minority groups, the most tangible discrimination which intersex people have faced has been medical. I feel that this is partly responsible for why some intersex organizations have remained…
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HIDA Viloria, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International – OII – and Director of Organisation Intersex International United States – OII USA – has written a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for intersex people to be included in the White House’s recently announced global efforts on behalf of LGBT equality. Ms Viloria,…
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WE would like to acknowledge the mention of intersex people in this report on discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay’s report on LGBT people that contains six mentions of the word intersex, as illustrated…
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COMPOUNDING damage already done by an Hawaiian prison system that locked her up in a gaol for men, the Courthouse News Service reports personal medical information about intersex woman Dione Kaeo-Tomaselli: A hermaphrodite who underwent surgery to become a woman claims Hawaii incarcerated her in a men’s prison where she was, predictably, raped. The 33-year-old…
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THE UN Committee against Torture sitting in Germany from October 31 to November 25 2011 has considered a German report on torture and other abuses and has produced a groundbreaking statement on intersex and torture: Intersex people 20. The Committee takes note of the information received during the dialogue that the Ethical Council has undertaken…
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