Essays
E.D. Viloria in The Daily Beast on Intersex Discrimination by the TSA
Our E.D. Hida Viloria discusses how some intersex people are discriminated against by the TSA simply because of the sex characteristics we were born with in he/r latest essay “Fear of Flying–or at Least the TSA–While Intersex.” We thank The Daily Beast for helping to bring attention to the discrimination intersex people face by…
Read MoreIntersex artist Arisleya Dilone Re-evaluates Female Body Norms in Buzzfeed
“If I take out my implants, I wonder if I may set an example for the next generation of girls in my family that breasts do not define our femininity.” — Arisleyda Dilone Doctors perform irreversible medically unnecessary surgeries and other treatments, known as Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) on intersex babies to make them conform…
Read MoreOur ED on the intersex closet in The Advocate
Please enjoy our founding director Hida Viloria’s oped “Why We Must Dismantle the Intersex Closet” in The Advocate. #intersex #nonbinary #LGBTI #comingout #HidaViloria Read more…
Read MoreElizabeth Reis’s excellent piece on pronouns in the NYT
In the essay “Pronoun Privilege,” published in Sunday’s New York Times, fantastic scholar and intersex ally Dr. Elizabeth Reis takes a look at the issues involved, from a professor’s perspective, with making people disclose their preferred pronouns to a group of strangers. Reis — who some of you may remember published the essay, “Divergence or disorder?: the politics…
Read MoreCary Gabriel Costello’s Oped on trans & Intersex human rights in the NYT
We are thrilled that Cary Gabriel Costello’s fantastic essay was selected to run in the New York Times’s Transgender Today essay competition. Costello is a professor of __ at University of Wisconsin, and author of the always engaging, intellligent, informatative blog Intersex Roadshow, which OII-USA has been recommending for years.
Read MoreRead Intersex Narratives in New VOICES Issue
We are very pleased to share “Normalizing Interex”, the latest issue of VOICES: Personal Stories from the Pages of NIB. NIB, The Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, published these personal narratives from intersex people, including our own Hida Viloria, last year, and they are now openly accessible to all here in VOICES. The narratives focus on our experiences with…
Read MoreHow Intersex People Identify
By Hida Viloria and Dana Zzyym. Much has been said recently, on the heels of all the media attention on Caitlin Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, about the issue of how people “identify”. Meanwhile, Intersex people have also been getting attention in the media, and an increasing amount of folks are finally aware of the fact…
Read MoreWhat is Intersexphobia, or Interphobia?
“Interphobia” — as coined in a fantastic 2010 blog post by openly intersex and trans* Professor Cary Gabriel Costello, PhD — is another term for what we have been calling “intersexphobia” for several years. Intersexphobia and Interphobia are defined as negative attitudes and feelings towards people who are believed to possess biological sex traits that…
Read MoreDr. Cary Gabriel Costello on how proposed transphobic legislation affects intersex people
This great essay by Intersex Roadshow (one of our favorite intersex blogs!) author Professor Cary Gabriel Costello on how Texas’s recently proposed transphobic bathroom legislation also negatively affects intersex people.
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