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Lambda Legal Blasts State Dept in Zzyym’s Gender Recognition Lawsuit
Last Intersex Awareness Day, 2015, our Associate Director Dana Zzyym, who uses they/them/their pronouns, and Lambda Legal, the country’s largest, oldest LGBT civil rights organization, announced that they were suing the U.S. Department of State for denying Zzyym a passport that accurately reflects their sex and gender. Today, Lambda Legal staff attorneys urged the U.S. District Court…
Read MoreGreat Piece on Intersex Activism & Activists in the U.K.!
We give thanks & kudos to the author of this fantastic piece in Diva magazine on the intersex movement in the UK, and to all the intersex activists who represented so eloquently on the issue — great job!
Read MoreOur E.D. at Princeton on Race, Sexuality & Gender Intersex-ionalities
Hida Viloria will be presenting he/r Intersex 101 workshop, “Reimagining the Human Species: Intersex People in Society”, and lecture,” Sex is Complicated: Intersexionality and Intersex Human Rights, Identity and Discourse”, today at Princeton. It’s truly incredible to see how far awareness, and discussions about intersex people’s lives has come, and we are honored to be…
Read MoreE.D. Hida Viloria’s Bibliography
Finally, by request, a complete list of our E.D. Hida Viloria’s published works. Enjoy. :) http://hidaviloria.com/about/articles-essays-other-published-work-by-hida-viloria/
Read MoreChilean officials oppose “normalization” surgery for intersex children!
The Chilean government is urging doctors to stop performing “normalizing” genital surgeries, a.k.a. Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM)! In a “document the Chilean Ministry of Health released last week expressed its opposition to “unnecessary ‘normalization’ treatments of intersex children” that include “irreversible genital surgeries until they are of a sufficient age to make decisions about their…
Read MoreViloria Published in College Textbook by Oxford University Press
IC4E E.D. Hida Viloria’s essay, “What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity”, was published this month in the college textbook, Queer: A Reader for Writers, by Oxford University Press. The book includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, and was developed for courses in first-year writing. It provides students with the rhetorical knowledge and…
Read MoreHappy 2016 to All!
OII-USA wishes all intersex people, our families, friends, and allies, a very Happy New Year! Happy New Yr oii-usa
Read MoreCelebrate Human Rights Day!
Happy Human Rights Day everyone! December 10th commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If you want to learn more about Human Rights Day, please explore the preceding U.N. link, or check out this informative piece. Also, be on the lookout for our Right to…
Read MoreViloria presenting at the APPPAH 19th Congress
ICE E.D. Hida Viloria will be speaking about the right to genital integrity, as it relates to intersex people, this Friday, December 4th, at the Association For Prenatal And Perinatal Psychology And Health (APPPAH)’s 19th International Congress (December 3-6, 2015). The Congress theme is Birth and Society: How Birth Impacts Society and how Society Impacts Birth. Viloria will…
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