Posts Tagged ‘intersex inclusion’
Lady 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 MoreWhen medicine can be dangerous to your health and human rights – ACOG pretends that intersex is transgender
MEDICINE, as we often point out, is not a science but a technical art that sometimes makes reference to science. Medical people are as subject to systems of belief – religions and ideologies unsupported by scientific inquiry – as non-medical people. Systems of belief, by their very nature of being based on belief, have little…
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…
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