Posts by Hida
International Intersex Community makes 7 Demands for Human Rights at the 2nd Annual Intersex Forum in Stockholm
Between 9-11 December 2012, the second International Intersex Forum took place in Stockholm. This event brought together 37 activists representing 33 intersex organisations and supportive institutions from all continents. The Forum agreed to affirm the principles of the first International Intersex Forum and extended the demands aiming to end discrimination against intersex people and to ensure the…
Read MoreOII’s Julius Kaggwa quoted re: LGBTI struggle in Uganda
US Faith Leaders have banded together to support the LGBTI community in Uganda, and call for a ban to anti-homosexuality bill. OII member Julius Kaggwa is quoted: …Julius Kaggwa, a prominent Ugandan LGBTI rights activist in Washington, DC this week for Human Rights First’s inaugural Human Rights Summit, hailed the supportive calls from faith leaders,…
Read MoreSwiss report acknowledges problems with infant surgery
Ground-breaking Swiss report on infant surgery, a review Earlier this month, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics published an opinion document: On the management of differences of sex development, Ethical issues relating to “intersexuality”. Copies are available via the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health in English: http://www.bag.admin.ch/nek-cne/04229/04232/index.html?lang=en. Here is OII Austrlaia’s brief review…
Read More“Hermaphrodites Exist: Intersex, the ‘I’ in LGBTI” – Presentation by Hida Viloria and Claudia Astorino at Bluestockings, NYC, Oct 27
Tonight at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center, 172 Allen Street, New York, New York 10002! [Location Map] Most societies still have a hard time openly incorporating intersex people into their culture. This workshop gets real about the resistance to admitting that hermaphrodites (our original, cultural label) exist, why so few of us are out…
Read MoreILGA-Europe statement on Intersex Awareness Day 2012
OII USA welcomes the following statement by ILGA-Europe. We call upon the U.S. government to review the practices that intersex people are subjected to here in the United States, and take the necessary actions to respect our human rights. ILGA-Europe believes that this day is a great opportunity for the raising of awareness on intersex…
Read MoreBrief Guidelines for Intersex Allies
This information includes intersex basics and tips for how to be a good ally. Please share widely to spread awareness about and acceptance of intersex people! Brief Guidelines for Intersex Allies
Read MoreIntersex Doc Orchids: My Intersex Adventure screens at film fest
We thank and congratulate Phoebe Hart for making this fantastic documentary film and wish we could attend the screening! Orchids: My Intersex Adventure traces Phoebe’s journey as an intersex person with humor, intelligence, sensitivity and depth which belies her age– bravo for intersex-made art! http://citizenjanefilmfestival.org/archives/2012-2/orchids-my-intersex-adventure/
Read MoreThe Guardian: “The IOC’s superwoman complex: how flawed sex-testing discriminates”
Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis have another article on IOC sex testing today, in The Guardian: Last week, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) quietly dropped what may prove to be a bomb in the middle of the already explosive question of who can compete in women’s events in the 2012 London summer Games. The new…
Read MoreViloria on “No Clear Option for Testing” in the NY Times
Hida Viloria’s letter to the New York Times on genetic testing of elite female athletes appears in Sunday’s paper: To the Sports Editor: Re “No Clear Option for Testing,” June 18: At the 2010 Winter Olympics, a sportscaster said, in reference to the figure skater Johnny Weir, “We should make him pass a gender test.”…
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