Today the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to adopt its first-ever resolution denouncing “discrimination, violence, and harmful practices” that violate the human rights of intersex people. The resolution specifically expresses the Council’s “grave concern” about the practice of “medically unnecessary or deferrable interventions…with respect to sex characteristics, performed without the full, free and
The “worst anti-trans bill in the nation” is not only that. Emory Hufbauer is a University of Kentucky graduate and a former high school teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. They work as a research programmer at a biology lab, and their pronouns are they/them. Last year my state, like many in the
Liat Feller, age 3 INTRODUCTION I always knew I was queer, and I’ve been “out” since I was sixteen, but I didn’t know that I was intersex until my early twenties. My first intersex traits appeared as early as age eight. By thirteen, I was well accustomed to invasive exams, procedures, and
The United States has been slow to call for an end to the surgeries on intersex youth. But change is in the air.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its proposed rule on the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections, making clear that discrimination against intersex people within federally funded health programs is prohibited.
Greece has taken a momentous step today for human rights by banning intersex genital mutilation, becoming one of the first countries to do so. The new law, which prohibits surgeries to change intersex children’s sex characteristics under age 15 unless urgently needed for health, affirms bodily autonomy and the right to individual choice around surgery.
