Posts Tagged ‘intersex’
Amazing Intersex Protest at Chicago Lurie Children’s Hospital
Yesterday, our colleagues Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Safia Wall, at the Intersex Justice Project, pulled off their second protest for intersex bodily autonnomy at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. With assistance this year from Maximo Cortez and Koomah from the Houston Intersex Society, and numerous ally groups joining in support, the protest was easily the…
Read MoreGlobal sports community signs open letter to IAAF in support of intersex women athletes!
We have long awaited the day when athletes would step forward to support the intersex women unfairly targeted by the I.A.A.F. (the sports federation which governs track and field) and their discriminatory regulations, and that day has come! Today, Billie Jean King, Ally Wambach & five dozen other leading athletes joined Athlete Ally and the…
Read MoreCALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: Support Intersex Rights Today, Powerfully and Easily
The U.S. intersex movement was birthed in the mid-90’s, when a a handful of pioneers including our E.D. began speaking out publicly in order to end medically unnecessary nonconsensual surgeries on intersex infants and children. Now, the Fight For Intersex Bodily Autonomy in California is revving up and needs your support. Please email the California…
Read MoreDana Zzyym Continues Fight for Intersex Federal Recognition!
From our Executive Director, Hida Viloria Yesterday, our associate director Dana Zzyym returned to federal district court in Denver, Colorado, to fight for the right to have their sex/gender (the two are conflated in law) accurately recognized as neither male nor female, but intersex and non-binary. As Dana and their legal representative Paul Castillo, from…
Read MoreIntersex Memoir BORN BOTH Nominated for Lambda Literary Award!
Last year, we were thrilled and proud to announce the release of the first book by an openly intersex author to be published by a Big 5 Publisher (Hachette Books), by our very own founding Director, long-time queer, non-binary intersex, Latinx activist and writer Hida Viloria. Viloria’s memoir, em>Born Both: An Intersex Life, received extensive…
Read MoreCORR.: CA Senator Introduces Resolution to Urge Medical Providers to End IGM
Our enormous thanks to California Senator Scott Weiner (D–San Francisco) for supporting intersex people’s right bodily autonomy and self-determination! As reported earlier this week on CBS SF Bay Area News, Senate Concurrent Resolution 110, which Weiner introduced March 6th: “seeks to end nonconsensual, and potentially harmful, sex assignment and genital “normalization” surgeries on babies born…
Read MoreCelebrating Black History Month: Julius Kaggwa
Today we honor celebrated Ugandan activist Julius Kaggwa, executive director of the intersex support organization Support Initiative for People with Atypical Sex Development (SIPD), whose pioneering human rights work began in the late 1990’s. We commend him for his inspirational impact, courage, and dedication as a first wave intersex activist in Africa whose work continues…
Read MoreCelebrating Black History Month: Nthabiseng Mokoena
Nthabiseng Mokoena is a prominent South African intersex activist whose strength and courage as one of the very first (if not the very first) black South Africans to advocate publicly for intersex rights we celebrate today. Mokoena was born wth ambiguous genitalia in rural South Africa, where many people believe that children born intersex are…
Read MoreCelebrating Black History Month: Sean Saifa Wall
In honor of Black History Month, we celebrate African-American artist and activist Sean Saifa Wall, whose groundbreaking work we have featured here in the past. Wall is a well-published speaker, researcher, and long-time intersex human rights activist whose intersectional perspective and voice as a queer intersex person of color is much needed and appreciated! In…
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