News Of Note
The President wants YOU to assist in his re-election, intersex people of America
IN an intriguing development, we have learned that a well-known LGBT activist in the United States has been asked by the Obama for President organization to assist in coordination and outreach to the…
Read MoreVideo of White House LGBT Health Conference now online, with questions by intersex activist
THE videos of the morning sessions from the White House LGBT Health Conference in Philadelphia on Thursday February 16 2012 are now online and available for viewing at any time.…
Read MoreAn intersex inclusive acronym and attributes formula that works, or a few that don’t?
FROM before it began as an organization OII Australia has been aware of the fact that intersex people will only gain equality and the end of intersex genital mutilation –…
Read MoreIntersex and LGBTI are now starting to appear in federal US health websites and grants programs
ALTHOUGH a search on the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website still yields a null result – ‘No pages were found containing “intersex”.’ – intersex does crop up…
Read MoreOII USA member Claudia Astorino to present on intersex at UC Davis March 1, 2012
CLAUDIA Astorino of OII’s United States affiliate OII USA is to present on intersex at University of California Davis during its Intersex Awareness Week. The week runs from Monday, February…
Read MoreOII Chairperson Hida Viloria asks US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to declare against intersex genital mutilation – IGM – as well as female genital mutilation – FGM
OII Chairperson Hida Viloria has written an article for The Global Herald declaring that recent statements by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against Female Genital Mutilation – FGM –…
Read MoreOII receives reply from US Department of State to OII Chairperson Hida Viloria’s letter asking for intersex inclusion in LGBTI – not LGBT-only – global human rights efforts
OII Chairperson Hida Viloria has received a reply from the US Department of State to her letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for full and equal intersex inclusion…
Read MoreOII’s Bhakti Ananda Goswami’s open letter about intersex to organizers of the White House LGBT Conference on Health, February 16th, 2012, in Philadelphia
Author: Bhakti Ananda Goswami, Diversity and Tolerance Spokesperson for Organization Intersex International – OII Date: February 16, 2012 Dear Conference Organizers, Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Diversity and…
Read MoreThe White House LGBT Conference on Health, Thursday, February 16th in Philadelphia
THE White House LGBT Conference on Health is being held in Philadelphia, today, US time, from 8am on Thursday February 16 2012. Details are below and the conference is being…
Read MoreAn annulment of marriage due to being intersex – In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C)
INFORMANTS of OII Australia’s recalled a Family Court of Australia case several decades ago where the marriage of an intersex was annulled on the basis that an intersex person cannot be legally…
Read MoreDavid Kato remembered by Nigerian LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine
UGANDAN LGBTI human rights activist David Kato was brutally murdered just over a year ago and fellow African LGBTI activist Sokari Ekine writes a letter to the man who was so beloved and…
Read MoreCreating a third gender creates a whole new set of problems and oppressions
A number of erstwhile allies of intersex people have supposed – apparently without bothering to actually ask – that intersex people want the legislative creation of a third gender or a third…
Read MoreScotland continues to impress in its intersex inclusion and its people’s ability to say LGBTI
THE Scottish people and media continue to impress us with their ability to say the word intersex and to pronounce intersex-including acronym LGBTI. That the people of Scotland and its…
Read MoreMaking the invisible visible – intersex rights are human rights and intersex people must no longer be ignored
OII Australia president Gina Wilson has written a guest blog item for the Human Rights Law Centre’s Equality Law Reform Project. The article is titled
Read MoreMedia release from Gender DynamiX announces intersex inclusive African initiative, Transitioning Africa
Announcement: Transitioning Africa GENDER DynamiX (GDX) and the Support Initiative for People with atypical sexual Development (SIPD) have taken their collaboration in the Exchange Programmes in 2010 and 2011 a step…
Read MorePlease stop using the language of disease to describe intersex if you wonder why medicine wants to “cure” intersex
OVER at the Open Society Foundation, Lydia Gutermnan asks the question “Why Are Doctors Still Performing Genital Surgery on Infants?” The answer is simple – so long as journalists, doctors,…
Read MoreThe Bay Area Reporter reports on intersex-inclusive House of Lords LGBTI human rights event
IT has been said that one can count the number of LGBTI, not LGBT, events in the United Kingdom on the palm of one hand. That may well be true.…
Read MoreFirst of a series of White House LGBT Health conferences is, in reality, intersex inclusive
IT was recently reported that The White House will be presenting a number of conferences on LGBT health around the country, with the first in the series to be held in…
Read MoreOnline petition for the United States government to end intersex genital mutilation – IGM
AN intersex activist in the United States of America has placed a petition online, asking for the end of intersex genital mutilation – IGM – in that country. Female genital mutilation –…
Read MoreUS 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…
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