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News Of Note

HHS Honors Intersex Awareness Day at the White House!

By admin author | October 26, 2023

HAPPY INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY (IAD) 2023 to all intersex people around the world! We are thrilled to report that the White House is once agan acknowledging and addressing the intersex…

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Intersex, trans and two-spirit Montanans launch lawsuit against disctiminatory law!

By admin author | October 12, 2023

A group of intersex, two-spirit, and trans residents in Montana filed a lawsuit yesterday suing the state over Senate Bill 458, the new law that elliminates legal recognition and protection…

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New intersex doc hits theatres tomorrow!!!

By admin author | June 29, 2023

EVERY BODY, the new intersex documentary by Emmy winner and co-director of the Oscar-nominated “RBG”, Julie Cohen, opens nationwide tomorrow, Friday June 30 — What an incredible moment for intersex…

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American Bar Assoc Resolution on informed consent for intersex surgeries

By admin author | February 11, 2023

As reported in the ABA Journal, the ABA (American Bar Association) House of Delegates approved a resolution on Monday, February 6, asking medical professionals to obtain consent from minors with…

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IC4E Speaks With the White House–Again!

By admin author | October 26, 2022

HAPPY INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY 2022 EVERYONE! This Intersex Awareness Day, like last, our Executive Director Hida Viloria was among a group of intersex activists that participated, by invitation, in an…

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Intersex Activist Appointed to State Dept Position!

By admin author | October 17, 2022

We are thrilled to report that yesterday, October 16, the US State Department hired intersex activist Kimberly Zieselman as senior advisor to Jessica Stern, Special Envoy for LGBTQI+ Human Rights!…

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IC4E Urges Dept of Health & Human Svcs: Depathologize Intersex Status

By admin author | September 21, 2022

ED HIDA VILORIA CALLS ON THE HHS TO DEPATHOLOGIZE INTERSEX STATUS, ACKNOWLEDGE FORCED OR COERCED INTERSEX MEDICAL PROCEDURES AS A FORM OF CONVERSION THERAPY, AND INCLUDE INTERSEX CITIZENS IN DATA…

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Intersex Americans Included in Biden’s Call for LGBTQI Equality!

By admin author | June 16, 2022

Yesterday, in his “Executive Order on Advancing Equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Individuals,” President Biden became the first US President to include intersex-Americans in the fight…

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WHO ARE INTERSEX PEOPLE?

By admin author | May 6, 2022

“INTERSEX” is an umbrella term referring to individuals born with sex characteristics that are not typically male or female or are a blend of both. There are an estimated 30…

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X Passports Avail April 11 – Tx to our AD’s Lawsuit!

By admin author | March 31, 2022

The US State Department announced today that X Marker Passports will be available to all US citizens starting on April 11th–a historic development made possible by our Associage Director Dana…

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Intersex Memoir one of Harper’s 10 to be Inspired By

By admin author | January 28, 2022

Our ED Hida Viloria’s acclaimed memoir BORN BOTH: AN INTERSEX LIFE, has been selected, alongside Maya Angelou’s, Michelle Obama’s and Gloria Steinem’s, by UK Harper’s Bazaar as one of “10…

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9 Binary-Breaking Books by Intersex Authors

By admin author | November 17, 2021

We thank writer and  community member and Chris M Arlone for compiling this list of “9 Binary-Breaking Books by Intersex Authors.” and we’re proud to say it includes one (Born…

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Happy Intersex Solidarity Day to allies everywhere!

By admin author | November 8, 2021

Today is observed as the Intersex Day of Remembrance in honor of the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a nineteenth centrury French intersex lesbian who tragicaly committed suicde after being found…

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Dana Zzyym’s Op-ed for NBC News

By admin author | November 2, 2021

Our Associate Director Dana Zzyym explains what drove them to fight for so long for the first US passport with an X sex/gender marker in a beautiful op-ed for NBC…

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Our A.D. is First Recipient of a US X Passport!

By admin author | October 27, 2021

We finally did it! Today, our Associate Director Dana Zzyym became the first recipient of a US passport with an X sex/gender marker. Receiving the passport culminates a six year…

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IC4E Meets With the White House Admin!

By admin author | October 26, 2021

HAPPY INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY 2021 EVERYONE! Today, while in Colorado with our Associate Director Dana Zzyym in anticipation of their receiving the first US passport with an “X” sex marker…

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For Intersex Awareness Day: The History of the X Passport Marker

By admin author | October 26, 2021

The History of the X Passport Marker Six years ago today, on Intersex Awareness Day 2015, our Associate Director Dana Zzyym filed their groundbreaking lawsuit for a US passport with…

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Happy Intersex Awareness Day 2021!

By admin author | October 26, 2021

For those unfamiliar, October 26th is obnserved as Intersex Awareness Day in honor of the first known intersex protest, outside a hospital in Boston, on October 26, 1996 (as pictured…

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Our AD’s Lawsuit in The New York Times

By admin author | February 25, 2021

More coverage this week of our Associate Director Dana Zzyym’s lawsuit, today in the New York Times. We thank Lambda Legal, as always,for acting as Dana’s legal representatives in the…

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Happy Intersex Solidarity Day to all intersex people & allies!

By admin author | November 8, 2020

Although we’ve seen many instances of intersex people being harmed because we’re different, we’ve also seen so many instances of wonderfully supportive friends, family members, health care workers, co-workers, colleagues,…

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