FAQs

Location for FAQs, Principles, Policies, etc.

Handbook for parents

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Handbook for parents

This is the handbook for parents, prepared in consultation with parents and intersex people themselves in 2008. Intersex is a normal variation of embodiment   INTRODUCTION   All parents wish for a healthy child. Parent are very often distressed when they first learn that their child is born with a difference, be it an illness,…
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Position statement on medical privacy

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This is OII-UK’s latest position on medical privacy, from the statement published on the original OII website. 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…
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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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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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On the use of Dex

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OII’s position statement on the use of Dexamethasone during pregnancy (June 2010) We, the board members of the Organisation Intersex International, wish to express our support of Drs. Feder, Dreger and Lindemann, for their vigilance and efforts to ensure the safety of intersex infants and their mothers who are currently being prescribed dexamethasone.   We…
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