Birthday story by Mani Bruce Mitchell
Mani Bruce Mitchell, AIC Board Member and Executive Director of Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand (ITANZ) Mani Bruce Mitchell and father Mani Bruce Mitchell and mother A few weeks ago I was
Advocates for Informed Choice & GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality respond to National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health invited comments on critical issues in child development for children and families affected by intersex conditions/DSD. AIC teamed up with GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality to respond
AIC goes to Berlin
AIC’s Director of Advancement Kimberly Zieselman was selected to travel to Berlin early December for Advancing Trans Movements Worldwide, a meeting for funders & activists working on gender diversity. The gathering hosted by Open Society Foundations, Wellspring Advisors, in partnership with Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE), and representatives from trans movements in Africa, Europe,
Public Statement by the Third International Intersex Forum
Between the 29th of November and 1 December 2013, the Third International Intersex Forum, supported by ILGA and ILGA-Europe, took place in Valletta, Malta. This event brought together 34 activists representing 30 intersex organisations from all continents, including AIC Board of Directors Co-chair Saifa Wall, and our Youth Leadership Coordinator Pidgeon Pagonis. Mani Mitchell who
Joint Statement from Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome – Disorders of Sex Development Support Group (AIS-DSDSG) and Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC) Respond to Germany’s New Third Gender Law
Visibility, challenges and hope for DSD and Intersex affected communities worldwide. United States, November 21, 2013: The new German law allowing families whose babies’ sex is unclear because of genital difference to defer choosing a binary option on the birth certificate has been the subject of much criticism. While we share some concerns, we believe
Endocrinologists Respond to UN Statement on Genital-Normalizing Surgery
AIC recently received a copy of a letter written by an international group of pediatric endocrine societies in response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture’s statement calling for an end to genital-normalizing surgeries without the consent of the affected person. The letter thanks the United Nations for bringing attention to this issue, while
Australian Senate Committee Releases Report on the Involuntary or Coerced Sterilization of Intersex People
The Australian Senate’s Community Affairs References Committee published its long anticipated report this month, “Involuntary or coerced sterilization of intersex people”. The report provided the first and most significant opportunity to raise issues about the health and wellbeing of intersex people in Australia with parliamentarians. OII Australia made numerous submissions to the inquiry, along with
Australia Passes Landmark Anti-Discrimination Legislation Officially Protecting Intersex People
On June 25th, the Organisation Intersex International Australia (OII Austrialia) announced on its website: “For the first time in Australia, and for the first time internationally, intersex people are recognised fully and authentically in anti-discrimination legislation.” On this day, the Australian Parliament voted into the law the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and
Finnish Pediatric Surgeon Denounces Intersex Surgeries
Finnish Pediatric Surgeon Mika Venhola recently denounced corrective surgeries on intersex infants and children. In his youtube interview from early April, Dr. Venhola states that when he was obliged as a medical student to perform "corrective surgery" (you can see him use air quotes in the clip) on an intersex baby he felt, "it was such a
The Pursuit of Happiness in Our Original Beautiful Bodies: Pidgeon Pagonis’ Recent Testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The Ides of March (March 15th) marks a day of ancient betrayal, the assassination of Cesar, in the popular imagination of the West. Intersex youth, adults, and their communities are no strangers to such feelings. For the thousands of intersex children and adult survivors who have endured non-consensual genital surgeries, the medical institutions set-up to