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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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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites

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Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites

  A Shared Guest Post by Sean Saifa Wall and Dr Cary Gabriel Costello   “In preparing for my talk, “Undeniable Blackness and Impossible Hermaphrodites” at UC Colorado at Colorado Springs next week, I revisited J. Marion Sims, heralded as the father of gynecology. I couldn’t help but feel my heart pound and break reading…
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The Third International Intersex Forum – Malta 2013

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This is probably a timely moment to remind ourselves of the aims and goals of intersex activism and advocacy. Malta has now adopted onto it’s statutes the most comprehensive protections for intersex people that can be found anywhere in the world. You can read about that elsewhere on this page. In part that is a…
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Making Depathologisation a matter of Law

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The ripples from Malta’s adoption of legal protections for intersex, trans and gender-queer people continues to resonate. The Maltese GIGESC Act not only defends children’s rights in Malta, including those of bodily integrity, self-determination and health. It also makes a fundamental contribution to intersex people’s human rights by recognizing in law the pervasive role that…
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A RED LETTER DAY AS MALTA MAKES HISTORY!

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Malta today became the first country in the world to adopt comprehensive legislation banning medically unnecessary, non-consensual infant genital surgeries on intersex infants and young children. A combined effort by intersex and trans activists over many years today culminated in the first comprehensive provisions to offer legal protections for intersex, trans* and genderqueer people in…
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