OII-UK welcomes the UN report on LGBT and Intersex people

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OII-UK welcomes the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights  report published on Monday – “Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity”,  A/HRC/29/23.  Within it’s pages the report makes detailed references to LGBT and Intersex human rights issue. The report details a wide range of actions…
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Wellcome Reading Rooms

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The Wellcome Reading Rooms host open forum events. These events are informal gatherings, free to those who wish to attend. Leslie Jaye from OII-UK and Dawn Vago from IntersexUK were delighted to be invited by Jay Stewart of Gendered Intelligence, to speak about intersex issues at an event on Thursday evening. Both Leslie and Dawn…
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Intersex Bodies and the Society that Shapes Them

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The key issue for most intersex people is not the existence of two binary sexes, but what is done to us to make us conform to those two narrow classifications.   Intersex inclusion has to be meaningful for it to be realistic. Adding the *I* to LGBT has to include understanding  the issues surrounding intersex,…
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Young LGBT and intersex people need recognition and protection of their rights International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia – Sunday 17 May 2015

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OII-UK  thanks the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for their intersex inclusive statement. IDAHOT acknowledges the day that homosexuality was finally removed  from the international manual of mental disorders known as DSM.  Intersex variations are still classified as physical disorders. Societal attitudes against LGBT and intersex persons should not be used as…
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Landmark Reports about Intersex Human Rights

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Landmark Reports about Intersex Human Rights

Intersex Human Rights gained further recognition today when the European Union published 2 reports about the abuses that intersex people continue to suffer. The EU Commissioner for Human Rights published a comprehensive report detailing the abuses intersex people continue to suffer, and offered a number of welcome recommendations that move toward remedying the plight of…
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Here be Dragons*

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Here be Dragons*

It began long ago in a land far away to the east, the like of which you will not find in the world today. ~ The Hobbit     Storytelling is the ancient means by which mankind has always shared information. The Indigenous groups of North America, and Australia shared the stories of their ancestors…
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