Posts by Hida
VICE Interviews Emily Quinn on coming out as intersex
In, “I’m Intersex and My Body Works Just Fine, Thank You”, VICE’s Hannah Hanra interviews Emily Quinn of InterAct (a U.S. intersex youth organization) on her decision to come out as intersex, and what it was like consulting MTV on TV’s first intersex character, on their series Faking It. http://www.vice.com/read/im-intersex-and-my-body-works-wonderfully
Read MoreOII-USA to host 5th Annual Intersex Awareness Day events in NYC
This year OII-USA is co-hosting two events in New York City — one with Bluestockings and one with NYU — for Intersex Awareness Day. Presenters will include Associate Director Claudia Astorino, founder of NYC’s IAD events, Dalea Rundblad, and Director Hida Viloria. See details here.
Read MoreViloria on LA’s KPFK Radio
A very personal interview with OII’s Hida Viloria on KPFK in LA’s “Feel, Think, and Grow Show”, with fantastic hosts Mikhail Tank and Layla Ashley. http://hidaviloria.com/interview-on-las-kpfk-radio/ Interview on LA’s KPFK Radio
Read MoreViloria on discrimination against intersex women athletes in The Advocate
We’re thrilled to to have this essay by our E.D. Hida Viloria run in The Advocate, although we note they changed the original title – “Bullying By Any Other Name: What’s Really Behind Regulations for Women with High Testosterone” – to, “Stop Freaking Out About Female Intersex Athletes”. The essay elaborates on the issue…
Read MorePlease sign petition to treat intersex athletes fairly!
Intersex women with high levels of testosterone are being singled out by case-by-case-upon-suspicion sports policies that ban them from competing as women unless they undergo medically unnecessary normalizing procedures, although but the policymakers’ own admission, “…there is no clear scientific evidence proving that a high level of T is a significant determinant of performance in…
Read MoreAljazeera interviews Viloria on sports policies for intersex female athletes
Our E.D. Hida Viloria is on Aljazeera’s The Stream today, speaking with scholars Payoshni Mitra, PhD, and Katrina Karkazis, PhD, author of Fixing Sex, about how sporting regulations for intersex women, specifically those with hyperandrogegism (high natural testosterone levels), are discriminatory, as witnessed in the recent case of India’s Dutee Chand. Viloria has lobbied extensively against…
Read MoreIntersex Pride in Cosmo!
FANTASTIC, inspirational interview in Cosmo by OII-USA’s honorary Dalea Rundblad, talented intersex musician and founder of Girl Comet, a self-esteem advocacy campaign. Thank you Dalea for representing intersex people so beautifully! Please share widely. :) http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/q-and-a/a30357/what-its-really-like-to-be-intersex/
Read MorePlease support intersex equality by liking Dutee’s page
We encourage you all to stand in support of Dutee Chand — the latest victim of discriminatory policies against intersex women with high testosterone levels (hyperandrogenism) — by liking the new Fairness for Dutee campaign on Facebook. Go here: https://www.facebook.com/FairnessForDuteeChand
Read MoreIndia lobbies for Dutee Chand!
OII’s Viloria, along with medical experts & others, lobbied the Int’l Olympic Committee (IOC) & the IAAF at their meeting in October, 2010, against imposing unfair “regulations” on intersex women athletes, but the sporting bodies caved under pressure from non-intersex female athletes who wanted something done about “women who look like men”. Wonderful to see…
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