Non-binary / Gender
Dana Zzyym Sues U.S. State Department for the Right to be Legally Recognized as a Non-binary Intersex Person!
*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *** Denver, CO, October 26, 2015. Today, Intersex Awareness Day, 2015, Lambda Legal filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on behalf of OII-USA Associate Director Dana Zzyym, for Zzyym’s right to have their gender accurately represented as neither male nor female on their passport. Zzyym, a disabled Navy…
Read MoreFrance recognizes non-binary intersex people!
We celebrate this FANASTIC news for intersex people everywhere!!! http://www.france24.com/en/20151014-french-court-recognises-third-neutral-gender-first-time
Read MoreNew Zealand adopts gender marker for non-binary gendered people!
On Friday July 17th, New Zealand announced that it has adopted a new gender option — called “Gender Diverse” — in addition to the existing “male” and “female” options, for citizens who have non-binary gender identities. We commend the New Zealand government and celebrate this victory for all non-binary people! Indeed, intersex people are subjected…
Read MoreHow Intersex People Identify
By Hida Viloria and Dana Zzyym. Much has been said recently, on the heels of all the media attention on Caitlin Jenner and Rachel Dolezal, about the issue of how people “identify”. Meanwhile, Intersex people have also been getting attention in the media, and an increasing amount of folks are finally aware of the fact…
Read MoreMalta announces education policy for trans, gender variant & intersex kids!
As if being the first country to criminalize (on April 1st) nonconsensual infant cosmetic surgeries of intersex kids — aka Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM) — wasn’t enough, Malta is now also the first nation to launch a comprehensive education policy on the needs of trans, gender variant and intersex children. We thank and salute Minister…
Read MoreViloria speaking in SF on June 5th for Pride Month :)
Intersex Campaign for Equality E.D. Hida Viloria joins author Joe Wenke and fellow contributors of the new book, The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, to share their stories, perspectives and commitment to freedom and equality. Please join for what promises to be a thought provoking, feel good event! See details here: THA SF Pride…
Read MoreOxford Dictionary to add honorific “Mx.” to recognize non-binary gendered people!
According to a recent article in Cosmo, the next edition of the Oxford dictionary may include the honorific term “Mx.” for people who don’t identify as Mr, Miss, Mrs or Ms.. While only some intersex people identify outside the male/female binary, we very much welcome and celebrate this addition for those of us who do…
Read MoreAll for One and One for All: Ending Interphobia
by Hida Viloria. Intersexphobia, or “Interphobia” — as coined in a fantastic 2010 blog post by openly intersex and trans* Professor Cary Gabriel Costello, PhD — encompasses negative attitudes and feelings towards people who are born with, or develop in puberty, sex traits that are not typically male or female, known as Intersex Traits. Interphobia…
Read MoreDr. Cary Gabriel Costello on how proposed transphobic legislation affects intersex people
This great essay by Intersex Roadshow (one of our favorite intersex blogs!) author Professor Cary Gabriel Costello on how Texas’s recently proposed transphobic bathroom legislation also negatively affects intersex people.
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