Posts Tagged ‘third gender’
Viloria’s “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need”, in The Global Herald
Please read OII-USA Director Hida Viloria’s essay “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need” for the facts about the new law, and why members of OII Germany and other German intersex advocacy groups are not thrilled with it.
Read MoreViloria Interviewed on BBC World Services Radio regarding Germany’s third gender law
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria speaks about Germany’s new third gender law and why it doesn’t go far enough in attaining human rights for intersex people, on the BBC World Services’ program World Have Your Say.
Read MoreGermany’s New Third Gender Law Places Intersex Babies at Risk
[We would like to note a correction to this original post: some intersex advocates were consulted in the creation of this new law, but their concerns were not addressed by it.] Germany’s new third gender law becomes effective today, and has been hailed as a groundbreaking advancement for intersex people, but every intersex advocacy organization…
Read MoreWatch Hermaphrodites Speak! the first intersex documentary
“The problem is not with the [intersex] child, the problem is with the attitudes towards the child.” — Hida Viloria, 1996 “I know, from my experience of my very own body… the really wonderful sensitivity that I had before surgery, in terms of genital sensation, and the tremendous orgasms that I had before… so it’s…
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