Posts by Hida
Viloria quoted in excellent article about intersex
In “Boy, girls and the rest of us”, author Gayle Pittman discusses intersex diversity, and Viloria’s view that children are more accepting of intersex than adults presume. :)
Read MoreOII Australia Pres. Gina Wilson provides testimony to the Equal Rights Trust
OII Australia’s President Gina Wilson provides an excellently worded testimony on behalf of intersex people to the Equal Rights Trust, a UK Human Rights think tank and advocacy organization. http://oii.org.au/22134/equal-rights-trust-testimony/ As Wilson says, “Most discrimination against intersex people is not as a consequence of us identifying as intersex, but on the basis of our physical appearance…
Read MoreOII Australia Testifies on Involuntary Sterilization Before the Australian Senate!
This is AMAZINGLY groundbreaking, intelligent, and comprehensive testimony regarding involuntary sterilization of intersex infants is available for your reading pleasure. We cannot thank or congratulate OII Australia’s Gina Wilson, Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa enough — as well as the other presenters Y. Gavriel Ansara, Bonnie Hart, and Sandra Perrin — for their brilliant testomony…
Read MoreCalling a Spade a Spade: Intersex is Just Intersex
A few days ago, I received an excerpt from an article-in-progress by a law professor that stated that intersex is increasingly included as a subcategory of transgender. I’m grateful that she contacted me for feedback, and confident that she’ll edit this out, but I’m shocked at how much people continue to obfuscate intersex. Why…
Read MoreOII-USA’s Astorino in AutoStraddle: “Claudia Is Intersex, Let’s Talk About It”
AutoStraddle has recently published a great piece by OII USA Associate Director, Claudia Astorino: Intersex is now being included in the LGBT acronym, in adding the “I.” Not all intersex people are comfortable with this, and many of the same arguments that were used before including trans* individuals are now used for intersex: that intersex…
Read MoreUN Calls for an End to Genital-Normalizing Surgeries!
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture issued a statement on 1 February 2013 in Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez recognising that intersex people have been subject to non-consensual medical normalisation treatment, and calling for an end to forced sterilisation, forced hormone treatment, and…
Read MoreViloria’s Short Video Compilation of Interviews on Intersex Equality
OII-USA Director and OII Int’l Chairperson Hida Viloria shares a message of intersex pride, visibility & human rights in this 2 1/2 minute video compilation of some of her best television and film interviews. Please share to spread the message of acceptance and equality for intersex people. Watch Hida’s video on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/73314775
Read MoreCoverage of the Intersex Forum in Stockholm
Intersex activists from around the world demand human rights.
Read MoreViloria in The Global Herald on human rights violations against intersex runner Pinki Pramanik
As Hida Viloria reports in “Criminalized Because of One’s Sex”: On June 14th, Indian gold medal winner Pinki Pramanik was arrested following accusations of rape and “being male” by her live-in partner. She was suspended from her job, detained in a male ward, and an MMS of one of her mandatory gender-verification tests, in which…
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