2012 Resolution: Spreading Intersex awareness!

Spreading awareness and ending discrimination MODERN medicine saves many lives and doctors are people dedicated to serving the health needs of others. OII United States does not stand in opposition to the medical community but does oppose some historic practices and recent developments in terminology and an approach that seeks to exclude intersex people themselves…

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Types of Intersex/Intersex Variations

What are some biological factors that can underly intersex? Note: A number of the items that will be linked to below are in the process of being edited for inaccuracies. They include… 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency 5-alpha reductase deficiency Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome – AIS Ambiguous genitalia Aphallia Clitoromegaly Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia – CAH Cryptorchidism Endocrine-disrupting chemicals…

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Our E.D. on Lobbying the IOC on Behalf of Intersex Women Athletes

  In October, 2010, our E.D. Hida Viloria participated, by invitation, in the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s meeting, “Athletes with Disorders of Sex Development and their participation in competitive sport,” held in Lausanne, Switzerland (see below).   The meeting was the second gathering of experts convened in the wake of Caster Semenya’s gender verification testing…

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Officer Dani Lee Harris becomes first intersex person to lead Pride parade

Officer Dani Lee Harris, the LGBT liaison for the Atlanta Police Department, became the first openly intersex person to lead a Pride Parade, in 2009, as Grand Marshall of Atlanta’s Pride parade. “It’s really a privilege and honor being the first intersex grand marshal,” Harris said in an interview. “I’m pleased and humbled…”, Harris said.…

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Watch award-winning intersex film XXY

We loved this award-winning film (Critics Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2007), and are happy to see that beloved film critic Roger Ebert did too, giving it a big thumbs up and 3 and a half (out of 4) stars. Read the review here. Watch Argentinian director Lucia Puenzo’s, XXY (2007, 86 min) here.

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