For Parents/Families/Birth Professionals
E.D. Hida Viloria on UN Radio’s Gender Focus
Our ED speaks about growing up as an intact intersex person, identifying as gender fluid, and how s/he thinks parents of intersex babies should treat them in this short interview segment UN Radio’s UN Gender Focus. Hida’s segment starts 3:16 minutes in, after an educational intro. by Charles Radcliffe, head of the UN Free &…
Read MoreGLMA Calls for End to Nonconsensual Surgeries on Intersex Minors!
Earlier this week, GLMA, the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, adopted a new resolution on the medical treatment of intersex kids, titled, “Medical and Surgical Intervention of Patients with Differences in Sex Development.” As GLMA states on their website: In what is believed to be a first for a US-based health professional association, GLMA recently revised…
Read MoreIntersex Awareness Day video by Intersex UK with Stephen Fry
Please check out and share this fantastic 2 minute Intersex Awareness Day video by Intersex UK, narrated by Stephen Fry. Thank you @stephenfry and thank u to our incredible colleagues & media interns for unification in another addition to global voice #IAD2016 pic.twitter.com/iXNrxkdso1 — IntersexUK (@intersexuk) October 27, 2016
Read MoreUN Free & Equal Launches Intersex Awareness Campaign
The UN’s Free & Equal Campaign has launched a fantastic new #IntersexAwareness Campaign! The Campaign features extensive resources and information about intersex people, including an Intersex Voices section featuring our E.D. and other #intersex activists who are changing the world. Please share it widely to help educate people and foster love, acceptance, and equality for…
Read MoreThe Intersex Awareness Day 2016 Did You Know? List
By our E.D. Hida Viloria Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay, celebrated in honor of the first known intersex protest, held at a medical clinic in Boston exactly twenty years ago, on October 26th. Although we’ve made a lot of progress since then, let’s face it: we still need a lot more awareness about intersex people. I mean,…
Read MoreUN Releases “Intersex Awareness” Video!
Today, in light of the upcoming #IntersexAwarenessDay, the UN Free & Equal Campaign released the video “Intersex Awareness”. The video, which is filmed without dialogue n order to be universally appealing and understood by people of all language groups, features the experience of an expecting family where the mother gives birth to an intersex baby,…
Read MoreTeen Vogue Discusses Heteronormativity’s Negative Impact on Interex People
Great Teen Vogue article, “Why Heteronormativity is A Bad Thing”, discusses the negative ways in which heteronormativity impacts intersex people and promotes Intersex Genital Mutilation/IGM (aka nonconsensual “normalizing” surgeries). Please enjoy and share this educational, intersexionality exploring piece.
Read MoreWatch Award Winning Documentary ONE IN 2000
“One in 2000 shows that truly effective care for intersex people means recognizing that there are many paths to health and happiness and that the real experts on intersex are the people themselves.” —Thea Hillman, Intersex Author “Fabulous-real, relevant, scientific, personal, and important… it should be offered in every medical school.” — Jan Schwartz,…
Read MoreFantastic Canadian Radio Interview about Intersex People & IGM
“The surgical procedures that are carried out here are often carried out by people who have trained in the United States, they’ve done their residencies, certainly the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the obstetrics and gynecology worlds, they all set this sort of standard of care and if it’s determined that the standard of…
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