HHS Honors Intersex Awareness Day at the White House!

HAPPY INTERSEX AWARENESS DAY (IAD) 2023 to all intersex people around the world! We are thrilled to report that the White House is once agan acknowledging and addressing the intersex community here and abroad at a special Intersex Awareness Day event hosed by the HHS (Department of Health and Human Services). This follows two years…

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Trans-intersex coalition: 1996 – now

Note: Some of the dates in the original posting have been corrected. Intersex Awareness Day is observed on October 26th in commemoration of the first North American intersex protest, in 1996 in Boston, where the American Academy of Pediatrics was holding their annual meeting. As demonstrated in the picture below, the trans and intersex alliance…

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New resource: Tips for Creating an Intersex-Friendly Environment

Intersex Awareness Day is about educating society in order make the world safe for intersex people to live openly, without unwanted intervention, as who we are. In this vein, we give you, Diversity is Healthy- Tips for Cresting an Intersex-Friendly Environment This one page resource explores the critical impact of language in creating safe and…

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Happy IAD Everyone– The Intersex Quarterly is here!

A message from our E.D. Hida Viloria, Co-editor of the new Intersex Quarterly, our online intersex quarterly produced in conjunction with Indolent Books. I am sooo happy to help share this amazing writing by amazing intersex people with the world. I really never imagined, even in my early thirties (by late 30’s I think I…

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How You can Help End Intersex Genital Mutilation Right Now (VIDEO)

We’re thrilled to see the intersex movement growing, but many folks still don’t understand why the human rights abuse of Intersex Genital Mutilation, or IGM (a.k.a. medically unnecessary nonconsensual surgeries on intersex infants and minors) persists, or what they can do to help end it. This video video — a recording of our E.D. Hida…

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State Dept. Claims Solidarity with Intersex People But…

Yesterday the U.S. State Department issued the following statement in conjunction with Intersex Awareness Day: In recognition of Intersex Awareness Day, the United States State Department stands in solidarity with intersex persons and advocates around the world. We recognize that intersex persons face violence, discrimination, harassment, and persecution on account to their sex characteristics. At…

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Intersex Awareness Day Approaches

Intersex Awareness Day is this Thursday, October 26th! Please help us spread visibility and acceptance of intersex people by sharing posts by &/or about intersex people on your social media outlets that day. For general info. we highly recommend the UN’s Intersex Fact Sheet, which the Intersex Campaign for Equality and other intersex activist organizations…

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Intersex Awareness Day video by Intersex UK with Stephen Fry

Please check out and share this fantastic 2 minute Intersex Awareness Day video by Intersex UK, narrated by Stephen Fry. Thank you @stephenfry and thank u to our incredible colleagues & media interns for unification in another addition to global voice #IAD2016 pic.twitter.com/iXNrxkdso1 — IntersexUK (@intersexuk) October 27, 2016

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