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Viloria on discrimination against intersex women athletes in The Advocate
We’re thrilled to to have this essay by our E.D. Hida Viloria run in The Advocate, although we note they changed the original title – “Bullying By Any Other Name: What’s Really Behind Regulations for Women with High Testosterone” – to, “Stop Freaking Out About Female Intersex Athletes”. The essay elaborates on the issue…
Read MorePlease sign petition to treat intersex athletes fairly!
Intersex women with high levels of testosterone are being singled out by case-by-case-upon-suspicion sports policies that ban them from competing as women unless they undergo medically unnecessary normalizing procedures, although but the policymakers’ own admission, “…there is no clear scientific evidence proving that a high level of T is a significant determinant of performance in…
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 MoreIntersex Pride in Cosmo!
FANTASTIC, inspirational interview in Cosmo by OII-USA’s honorary Dalea Rundblad, talented intersex musician and founder of Girl Comet, a self-esteem advocacy campaign. Thank you Dalea for representing intersex people so beautifully! Please share widely. :) http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/q-and-a/a30357/what-its-really-like-to-be-intersex/
Read MorePlease support intersex equality by liking Dutee’s page
We encourage you all to stand in support of Dutee Chand — the latest victim of discriminatory policies against intersex women with high testosterone levels (hyperandrogenism) — by liking the new Fairness for Dutee campaign on Facebook. Go here: https://www.facebook.com/FairnessForDuteeChand
Read MoreIndia lobbies for Dutee Chand!
OII’s Viloria, along with medical experts & others, lobbied the Int’l Olympic Committee (IOC) & the IAAF at their meeting in October, 2010, against imposing unfair “regulations” on intersex women athletes, but the sporting bodies caved under pressure from non-intersex female athletes who wanted something done about “women who look like men”. Wonderful to see…
Read MoreOII-USA’s Astorino provides insight & tips for coming out as intersex!
As usual, OII-USA Associate Director Cludia Astorino provides a fantastically well written, wise, insightful, and humorous piece, this one on how to tell your friends that you are intersex, upon query by a reader of her advice column. :) link: http://everyoneisgay.com/should-i-tell-my-friend-im-intersex/
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
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