Human Rights
Intersex Californian becomes 2nd US citizen to attain nonbinary gender recognition!
Yesterday, in a Santa Cruz California courtroom, Sara Kelly Keenan became the second U.S. citizen—and the first California resident—to legally change her gender from female to “non-binary.” Keenan, a retired paralegal, was inspired to petition the court for a gender change to “nonbinary” by Jamie Shupe’s similar victory in Oregon this past June. We…
Read MoreOur E.D. on intersex athletes in California magazine
Today, our E.D. Hida Viloria is quoted in h/er alma mater U.C. Berkeley’s California magazine, alongside intersex ally and Stanford bioethicist Katrina Karkazis, in the article, Who Gets to be A Woman in Sports? The article focuses on the issue of intersex women in sports, and the need to confront the prejudice with which this issue is…
Read MoreSupport Justice for Shanthi Soundarajan!
Intersex women athletes need our support – please sign the petition for Shanthi Soundarajan! http://thappad.in/petition/shanti/ With the advent of the Olympics in Rio, we have seen a wave of discriminatory attitudes against intersex women in the press, disguised as “concern” over the fact that women with naturally high testosterone levels (known as hyperandrogenism) will…
Read MoreOur Own Dana Zzyym’s Lawsuit in the LA Times
See the LA Times coverage of our Associate Director Dana Zzyym’s groundbreaking lawsuit for non-binary gender recognition on their passport. Go Dana and intersex visibility, rights and recognition! #intersexequality
Read MoreVideo: Dana Zzyym’s Groundbreaking Third Gender Recognition Passport Lawsuit!
Our Associate Director Dana Zzyym is engaged in a historic federal lawsuit for a third gender passport, filed on Intersex Awareness Day 2015, against the U.S. State Department. Lambda Legal, Dana’s representatives in the lawsuit, argued Dana’s case in court today. In conjunction, Lambda Legal released this fantastic one minute video about the lawsuit, featuring…
Read MoreLambda Legal Says: State Dept Got it Wrong, Intersex Citizen Dana Zzyym Deserves a Non-Binary Passport!
*** For Immediate Release, from Lambda Legal *** State Sept Got It Wrong in Denying Passport to Intersex Citizen, Lambda Legal Tells Court “Dana was denied a passport, an essential identity document, and in effect is under nationwide house arrest just for being honest…. This country is better than that.” (Denver, CO, July 20, 2016) – Lambda Legal…
Read MoreU.S. Includes Intersex People in Bans on Sex Discrimination in Federal Health Care!
On May 13th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a 362-page rule on the Obamacare/Affordable Care Act’s Section 1557, the provision of the law which bans sex discrimination in health care, which included the statement: “… the prohibition on sex discrimination extends to discrimination on the basis of intersex traits or atypical sex characteristics.” This…
Read MoreThoughts on IDAHO-T by our E.D.
A short essay from our E.D. Hida Viloria on IDAHO-T, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Enjoy!
Read MoreWe Celebrate IDAHO-T w/Fantastic New UN Video!
We would like to wish all our comrades in the LGBTQIA community a very happy IDAHO-T Day (Int’l Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia). Whether we grow up to be LGBT or not, all intersex people are vulnerable to homophobia, transphobia and biphobia if our differences are detected at birth or in childhood, because the…
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