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US Department of Housing and Urban Development issues LGBT housing rule, but no sign of intersex anywhere
IN a worthy move on behalf of our LGBT allies within the LGBTI community, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Secretary Shaun Donovan has announced a new HUD rule, Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs – Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity. The rule does not include intersex. Intersex people are…
Read MoreCardiff’s LGBT short film award the Iris Prize is also open to intersex filmmakers
DESPITE its intersex-excluding LGBT acronym, the Iris Prize for short films is also open to intersex filmmakers and is valued at £25,000. May we suggest to the Prize organizers that they signal their apparent intersex inclusion loud and clear by using the intersex-inclusive LGBTI acronym? You know it makes sense and it will help attract more…
Read MoreLady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. Intersex-inclusive? Time will tell.
SHE has never definitively answered the commonly-asked question of whether she is an “hermaphrodite” or not – her questioners meant intersex of course. Frankly, we don’t care if she is or isn’t. She has, however, sent no signals that her LGBT human rights project Born This Way Foundation – BTWF – is actually intersex-inclusive and thus…
Read MoreOn a Third Sex
THE creation of a new category to be designated intersex poses several problems. First of all, how do we define intersex? OII believes that there will be never a clear definition and at the same time, that it is not necessary to have a legal definition for intersex. We have no clear definitions for what…
Read MoreAlex Jurgen comes out as intersex in interview. (YouTube Video)
Alex Jurgen, founder of OII Austria, comes out as intersex in this interview. Kudos to Alex for being bravely, proudly intersex! Watch the video (7:46 min) here.
Read MoreImportant LGBTQ online survey for California residents is intersex inclusive (though not by virtue of its acronym)
THE LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project has an online survey running until January 18, 2012. The survey is open only to residents of California, whether they are located in that state at the time of filling in the survey or not. A note to the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project administrators: We suggest to the survey organizers that…
Read MoreViloria’s letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for full intersex inclusion in White House human rights initiatives
HIDA Viloria, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International – OII – and Director of Organisation Intersex International United States – OII USA – has written a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for intersex people to be included in the White House’s recently announced global efforts on behalf of LGBT equality. Ms Viloria,…
Read MoreIntersex-inclusive inter-American human rights commission shows the way via new unit for LGBTI rights
WHILE its counterparts in other parts of the globe prevaricate about including intersex people in their human rights work, the Organization of American States’ (OAS) pan-American human rights commission the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has created “a Unit on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons, in order to…
Read MoreOur 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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