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The Organisation Intersex International, would like to invite others to join us each year by commemorating November 8 as Intersex Solidarity Day. All human rights organizations, feminist allies, academics and gender specialists, as well as other groups and individuals interested in intersex human rights, are invited to show...
Organisation Internationale des Intersexes / Organisation Intersex International / Organización Internacional de Intersexuales / Organização Internacional de Intersexuais / Internationale Vereinigung Intersexueller
I am very honored to introduce OII's two newest board members, Kristen Worley and Y. Gavriel Ansara.
OII-Canada Kristen Worley is a famous athlete who has worked in many countries in the world with the International Olympic Committee to end discrimination against intersex and trans athletes. She will speak on behalf of OII as spokeswoman against sexism and discrimination. For more information about Kristen Worley:
Here we find an odd article by Zucker and Spitzer. http://tinyurl.com/4ssbcl It should be noted, that the great majority of those presenting with extreme boyhood femininity in childhood do NOT grow up to be transsexual. This...
Deconstructing the Feminine Essence Narrative Ongoing investigation by OII
Introduction
In the coming weeks, OII will be working with an informant who has primary sources and e-mails from the individuals involved in an attempt to deconstruct...
For Immediate Release April 7, 2008 Contact: Nancy Nangeroni, nancy@gendervision.org, 978-969-2346
GenderVision Releases First Video Program, "Sex & Gender"
Now available: the first show of the long-awaited video program, "GenderVision." Produced and hosted by GenderTalk radio producers Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene MacKenzie, GenderVision continues the ground-breaking work of challenging and expanding our vision of gender and progressive politics. Cablecast in Beverly,...
We have been asked why OII's Official Position on Health Care does not mention mutilations. There are many reasons for this. Most intersex activism has been focused on just denouncing surgery (basically feminizing surgery), while insisting on a gender assignment as soon...
Hello Clarke-Northwestern. Hello Sexnet. How are you nice people today? While you are eating your breakfasts, lunch or supper depending on the time you actually read this, I would like you to contemplate a concept known as “Dissent”. That is people do not agree with everything you say, and perhaps more unsettling for you...
A book by Sophia Siedlberg, OII spokesperson in the United Kingdom, will be published in chapters which will be released on this website one by one over the next few weeks. At the end there will be 27 chapters.
All art and literary works published here are protected by copyright and belong to Sophia Siedlberg.
Introduction Chapter 1: The Litany of Apoptosis Chapter 2: The Killer Sperm
To download the chapters which are available in PDF:
On January 30, 2008, the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf UKE in Hamburg held the 2nd Interdisciplinary Forum on Intersexuality.
The most important moment of the event was when the Verein Intersexuelle Menschen e.V. (Association for the Intersexed) honored Dr. Milton Diamond for his years of service to the intersex community and his endless commitment to their well-being and acceptance within society.
We in OII wish to express our agreement with the German Intersex people who honored him. Dr. Milton Diamond has been devoted to listening to intersexed people and working...
OII’s policy concerning intersex, medical diagnoses and health information.
OII is very sensitive to the individual’s right to privacy concerning medical information and does not require any release of medical information or any diagnosis to be a member of our support groups. OII members are instructed not to ask for a medical diagnosis from any member, leaving each member free to volunteer such information and share that information with others as they feel fit. There are many reasons for this.
PRESS RELEASE - Feb. 6, 2008 Organisation Intersex International http://www.intersexualite.org/ Congratulations to Christiane Völling
The Organisation Intersex International congratulates Christiane Völling the German intersex woman who sued a surgeon for damages. Today the Cologne Regional Court ruled that her ovaries and uterus were removed over 30 years ago without her informed consent.
This verdict further justifies OII's position that present-day medical treatment of intersex infants...
DSD: North American Medical fascism and manufacturing consent
By Curtis E. Hinkle Founder, Organisation Intersex International
One of the most important questions to ask concerning the controversy surrounding the term “DSD”, Disorders of sex development, as a replacement for intersex is a simple one. Why do we need to have a name at all? Why do we need to have a diagnosis at all? Other important questions include who is naming us and for what reasons? Does this have anything to do with us at all? Should it even concern us?
Gender is not something many people would expect to be an issue for someone seeking help at a women's shelter.
But it could be, if your gender is questioned.
The issue of transsexual women receiving shelter and other support services was a topic of discussion Thursday during a workshop entitled, "Creating Inclusive Spaces for all Women," organized by the Chatham-Kent Women's Centre Outreach Program.
Joelle Laramee, vice-president and spokeswoman for the Canadian Organisation of Internationale des Intersexués, based in Montreal, was one of the panel speakers.
Announcing Queeruption11: Roma, Italy, 1-7 July 2008
Dear All, we are very pleased to announce the official dates for the next Queeruption.
Queeruption 11 will be held in Roma this summer, 1-7 July 2008.
The collective in Roma is already working hard to ensure seven amazing days of queer radical culture, queer-politics, antiracism, zines, workshops, cinema, sexual health, cooking, sex spaces, art, eco-queer, music, human rights, theatre, queer cabaret, beach time, parties and more.
Queeruption11 will provide an alternative political, queer-anarchist,...
This is a story of a 22 years old patient who was born to less educated parents in remote area and reared as Female in early life. She passed all her exams in both her school and graduation level. Not a single instance has come in her life when she ever felt ambiguity in her sexual behaviour. As a normal human being, she continued her studies and went to Mumbai. She applied for a job as a female candidate and luckily got selected for the job. After selection, she started her training...
Commentary by Curtis Hinkle and P. Derelle, members of OII, Organisation Intersex International
As an intersexed person with the same intersex variation as the character in the film XXY, I am shocked at the continuous misinformation coming from TÊTU (a large gay French magazine). This is not the first time that TÊTU has insisted on marginalising and invisibilising intersex people.
I have read TÊTU’s critique of the film XXY (the only negative one in all the...
ParentsInX.org The Online Community for Parents. Connecting Families Living with Congenital Gender Variations in Children or their Parents.
I am proud to announce that this site is now open to Parents. Invited are Parents of a child or children of a Congenital Gender Variation (CGV) or Parents that are a CGV themselves. This site is run by Parents.
The theme is centered around the home life of a Parent and what concerns and issues we encounter to share.
ParentsInX.org is strictly moderated for the safety for all members. The address...
Press Release Curtis E. Hinkle, Organisation Intersex International http://www.intersexualite.org/ For immediate release The Organisation Intersex International expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling
The Board Members of OII from various countries all over the world wish to express our solidarity with Christiane Völling, an intersexed woman from Germany who is suing a doctor for having surgically assigned her male without her consent.
Press release Curtis E. Hinkle, president of OII December 7, 2007 For immediate release The City of Montreal has officially adopted the “Declaration of Montreal”
The Organisation Intersex International, an association incorporated in Quebec with international membership, wishes to thank the elected officials of the...
The intersexed are mobilizing to defend themselves (Translation: Curtis E. Hinkle)
Treating intersex as a taboo has had a long-lasting negative impact on the lives of those affected and has forced them into isolation. The intersexed are no longer going to be silenced and in the future are going to stand up to protect intersex children. Society needs correct information and explanations in order for intersex to start being treated in a more flexible manner. Intersexed people are demanding that sex-assignment operations...
(Translation: Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of the Organisation Intersex International)
Each year in the European Union thousands of children are subjected to genital operations without their consent. Most of them will endure substantial psychological and physical damage as a result which will cause lifelong suffering.
These operations serve no medical purpose, but serve exclusively to irreversibly...
On this day, November the 8th 2007, in honor of the International Intersex Solidarity Day, GendersInX is presenting the official Congenital Gender Variations Ribbon in collaboration with the OII, Organisation Intersex International.
This ribbon is a show of support for all people with congenital gender variations and those who identify as Intersex. It is important that we not only show by our actions that we are a strong people but that we visually show our...
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