Intersex Lives
Intersex Lives – our 2020 campaign website This campaign is based on a workshop during the previous OII Europe Community [Continue Reading]
Intersex Awareness Day Oct 26 Campaign #MyIntersexStory
On the Intersex Awareness Day (Oct. 26 2019) we launch our campaign #MyIntersexStory with quotes of testimonies by intersex people [Continue Reading]
My Intersex Story
This video was created during OII Europe’s Second Intersex Community Event and Conference in Copenhagen in February 2018. Text by [Continue Reading]
Protect Intersex Children!
Being born and growing up as an intersex person in today’s society can still be a challenge. However, with love [Continue Reading]
Intersex women – Being a woman: by MeerderWörter
To celebrate International Women´s day we are sharing this piece about intersex women written at our community event in Copenhagen [Continue Reading]
Happy intersex awareness day!
Today we’re happy to share this video with you. It features intersex youth from different European countries and was created [Continue Reading]
4th International Intersex Forum – Media Statement
Between the 20th and 23rd of April 2017, a Fourth International Intersex Forum was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The world’s [Continue Reading]
Information about intersex in 23 languages and more to come
intervisibility.eu The place for stories of intersex people across Europe. OII Europe launches European website with information on intersex in [Continue Reading]
We are here: Intersex Youth
The voices we need to listen to are the voices of Intersex youth. They express the same feelings towards unconsented [Continue Reading]
[VIDEO] Frontline Dispatches: Intersex Children And Medical Sex Assignment – Whose Right To Choose?
“European countries have been slow in recognising and upholding the human rights of intersex people and the gender diversity they represent,” wrote Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights, in a ground-breaking 2015 report on the self-determination and physical integrity of intersex people.
He added: “It is urgent to end unnecessary medical treatment and surgery of intersex individuals without their consent; to respect their right not to undergo sex assignment treatment; to review medical classifications which treat variations in sex characteristics as a pathology; and to ensure intersex persons’ right to self-determination by facilitating their legal recognition in official documents.”
