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UN creates Intersex Fact Sheet & features Viloria in video!!!
Our deepest thanks and gratitude goes to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for their work to include intersex people in the struggle for human rights, by engaging with intersex activists such as our very own Hida Viloria, to create the fantastic Free & Equal Campaign’s Intersex Fact Sheet,…
Read MoreOII’s message of “Intersex” pride in new Buzzfeed video! :)
We’re thrilled to see more intersex activists following our lead by discarding the use of medical terms such as “DSD” (representing “Disorders” or “Differences”, “of Sex Development”) and instead using the term “Intersex” exclusively in this video, “What It’s Like Being Intersex”! In 2011, OII-USA, a.k.a. The Intersex Campaign for Equality, was founded and became…
Read MoreViloria in Gender Talents (Video)
OII Word Chair and Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) founder Hida Viloria was interviewed for Gender Talents , a fantastic web-based project by Colombian artist Carlos Motta that engages movements and discourses for gender self-determination within trans and interest communities. Watch the 8 1/2 minute video here. Motta does a FANTASTIC job capturing some of…
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 MoreAustralian model Ruby Rose comes out as genderfluid
Australian model Ruby Rose comes out as genderfluid in a video and interview in Gay Star News Kudos to Rose for speaking out proudly for non-binary people!
Read MoreShort film about OII Australia V.P. Tony Briffa
Tony Briffa, who has been in the forefront of intersex visibility down under, and was the world’s first openly intersex mayor, shares their life experiences as an intersex persoon and spokesperson in this fantastic 8 minute short film. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqrFHDntfEM
Read MoreUN Free & Equal Campaign Human Rights Day video features Viloria
We’re happy to see OII-USA Director Hida Viloria quoted in this article announcing the UN Free & Equal campaign’s video of the groundbreaking panel Sports Comes Out Against Homophobia. “It’s very easy to discriminate against intersex women [athletes] because we’re closeted,” said U.S. intersex activist Hida Viloria. “That’s why even though intesex is 1.7{f489cf86ef3549788833b103eab17d2ae409a7409d59fb02bb862162d1b706dc} of…
Read MoreViloria Speaks on Intersex Human Rights at the UN!
On Human Rights Day (December 10th), OII Chairperson and OII-USA founding director Hida Viloria spoke at the United Nations, making her the first openly intersex person to do so. Viloria’s pioneering work as an “out” intersex activist was honored with the invitation to speak on the panel event Sport Comes Out Against Homophobia–along with “out”…
Read MoreOII-USA’s Hida Viloria & Claudia Astorino & more on HuffPostLIve
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria, & Associate Director Claudia Astorino spoke with HuffPostLive today about who intersex people are, Germany’s third gender law, and human rights for intersex people. We were joined by fellow intersex activist Sean Safia Wall, of AIC, Intersex Roadshow blogger and Professor Cary Gabriel Costello, and former OII Human Rights Spokesperson David…
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