The Basics

OII FAQ

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This was the original FAQ about OII, covering origin, reason, structure, positions, etc. It dates back to 2007 originally, and was still in place on the original website up to the move to separate national pages, and is therefore still current for OII-UK. The Organisation Intersex International (OII) is devoted to systemic change to end…
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Why we do not use “Disorder of Sex Development”

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OII delivered one of the first organised English-language responses to the introduction of this terminology (acknowledging also the objections of Milton Diamond at the time, as well as David, Peter and Esther who proofread the Parent’s Handbook, and those of activists from non-English speaking countries at the time, whose work we were not all aware…
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Mission statement

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Our Mission Campaign in favour of human rights for the intersexed. Encourage an exchange of ideas and different perspectives about intersex from various groups and geographical regions. Provide information concerning actual life experiences of people with intersex conditions to medical personnel working with infants with atypical genitalia, to psychological experts, sexologists, sociologists and specialists in…
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Official position on medical care

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On Medical Care   Our societies have accepted a binary construct between male and female which does not reflect Nature and the enormous variety of possible sexes which overlap one another in various gradations on a spectrum with male at one end and female at the other.  The arbitrary division of biological sex into only…
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