UN 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 MorePublic Statement by the Third International Intersex Forum: The Malta Declaration
Between November 29th and December 1st 2013, the Third International Intersex Forum, supported by ILGA and ILGA-Europe, took place in Valletta, Malta. This event brought together 34 activists representing 30 intersex organisations from all continents. The Forum was organized by ILGA Europe’s Silvan Agius and Ruth Baldacchino, and three intersex activists selected from an open…
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…
Read MoreOII Australia’s Morgan Carpenter published in ABC’s The Drum regarding groundbreaking Australian Senate’s statement on medical treatment of intersex children
OII Australia President Morgan Carpenter’s essay, “It’s Time to Defend Intersex Rights”, explores why “normalizing” surgeries on intersex babies and children must end, and the recent Australian Senate report “Involuntary or coerced sterilization of intersex people in Australia”. Note, this groundbreaking report is based directly on submissions by OII Australia. To read more about the…
Read MoreAIC’s Anne Tamar-Mattis on concerns with Germany’s third gender law, & AIC’s intersex lawsuit
Anne Tamar-Mattis, Executive Director of Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC), a US intersex advocacy organization focusing on legal issues for intersex children, was interviewed on Berkeley California’s KPFA radio regarding Germany’s third gender law, and shared similar concerns as those expressed by OII Chair/OII-USA Director Hida Viloria, and German intersex advocates. She also discusses the…
Read MoreOII-USA’s Viloria published in The Advocate regarding issues with Germany’s third gender law
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria’s essay, “Germany’s Third Gender Law Fails on Equality”, discusses how this new law gives intersex babies less equal rights, how Australia’s law only applies to intersex adults, not babies, and why it is so much better than Germany’s. Click here to read.
Read MoreViloria’s “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need”, in The Global Herald
Please read OII-USA Director Hida Viloria’s essay “Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People Most Need” for the facts about the new law, and why members of OII Germany and other German intersex advocacy groups are not thrilled with it.
Read MoreViloria Interviewed on BBC World Services Radio regarding Germany’s third gender law
OII-USA Director Hida Viloria speaks about Germany’s new third gender law and why it doesn’t go far enough in attaining human rights for intersex people, on the BBC World Services’ program World Have Your Say.
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