OII Italia’s advocacy work aims at stopping the violation of intersex people’s human rights, especially the unnecessary and non-consensual medical treatments inflicted upon intersex people to conform their bodies.
OII Italia was established in 2017, and co-founded by two intersex people. OII Italia’s advocacy work aims at stopping the violation of intersex people’s human rights, especially the unnecessary and non-consensual medical treatments inflicted upon intersex people to conform their bodies. To achieve this goal, this new group is working on building new alliances and a network of intersex activists and advocates in Italy. OII-Italia’s current main priority is to raise national awareness on human rights violations perpetrated against intersex people. OII-Italia aims at building a strong intersex movement in the country.
Collectif Intersexes et Allié-e-s was founded in 2016 and is an intersex-led collective in France.
The group was set up on IAD 2016 and is an intersex–led collective in France. Their advocacy work was structured around the revision of the bioethics law, with work with many human rights French institutions and Parliament groups. Around this work, their awareness–raising campaign included a petition, interassociative trainings, and participation in public events such as screenings, demonstrations or debates. Their community work includes individual and collective accompaniment and a national gathering, as well as national surveys. They are also involved in international intersex networks.
petition, interassociative trainings, and participation in public events such as screenings, demonstrations or debates. Their community work includes individual and collective accompaniment and a national gathering, as well as national surveys. They are also involved in international intersex networks.
Intersex Peer Support Australia (IPSA) provide peer support between people with any intersex variation throughout Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Intersex Peer Support Australia was established with support from the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne in 1985 and became peer–led in 1996. They now provide peer support between people with any intersex variation throughout Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. They work closely with Intersex Human Rights Australia and Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand. They produce videos for awareness–raising, participate in interviews, and develop a website with many information about intersex variations and legal rights of intersex people. They have a group on facebook and hold many peer–support meetings, such as family picnics in partnership with the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. They help to put people with intersex variations together in their local area, and provide peer–to–peer support by email and phone. They encourage and facilitate creative and political expression for intersex individuals and groups. They also hold the national intersex peer support conference each year.
The Intersex Human Rights Fund supports organizations, projects and timely campaigns led by intersex activists working to ensure the human rights, bodily autonomy, physical integrity and self-determination of intersex people. Given the dearth of funding to intersex issues globally, intersex groups/projects based anywhere in the world are eligible to apply.
XY Spectrum was founded by trans and intersex activists from Serbia and is the first organization with, for and on intersex issues in Serbia.
XY Spectrum was created in 2017. This will be the first organization with, for and on intersex issues in Serbia. They are involved in peer–support with They also helped an intersex child and their parents from the Iran in refugee camp in Belgrade. They advocate within the UN UPR mechanisms and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), as well as within the ILGA Europe EU Enlargement report. They are involved in awareness raising with a number of media participations and lectures, and with translating OII Europe content into Serbian.
The Queer & Trans People of Color Birthwerq Project started in 2014 to create more access to birth education for trans and gender non-conforming people of color.
The Queer & Trans People of Color Birthwerq Project started in 2014 to create more access to birth education for trans and gender non-conforming people of color. Birth education is largely inaccessible not only due to tuition rates, but also because it is often highly gendered and dominated by white, cisgendered, upper-class, heterosexual women. There are many more kinds of pregnant people than are represented in the licensed/certified U.S. birthworker demographic. QTPOC Birthwerq Project is committed to shifting this work back into queer and trans communities of color by offering ways for QTPOC to learn about birth and pregnancy in a setting that is trans-positive and competent, that is encouraging of community doulas, and that centers the rich legacy of POC birthworkers in the U.S. Their mission is to not only increase the number of trans people of color doulas, particularly trans women of color, but also to build and support movement building between reproductive justice and trans justice. Their work aims to begin to heal/mend the disconnect between these two movements by remembering and reclaiming that work as advocates and birthworkers was always together. This organization is supported through the Funding Queerly Giving Circle, which is housed at Astraea.
ÇÃO PELA IDENTIDADE – API (Action for Identity) was formed in 2011 and officially registered in 2015 as an organization for the defense and study of intersectionality, bodily diversity and sex characteristics as well as gender diversity.
API would like to see terms like intersex, sex characteristics and bodily integrity becoming more visible in political discourse, including legislation and policies. They have a focus on Afro-Portuguese communities and aim to ensure access to stakeholders, and address racism in policies; API would like to see increased media representation of black, trans and intersex people. AÇÃO PELA IDENTIDADE – API (Action for Identity) was formed in 2011 and officially registered in 2015 as an organization for the defense and study of intersectionality, bodily diversity and sex characteristics as well as gender diversity. It’s leader is a black intersex artivist Santiago D’Almeida Ferreira who became the first intersex person out in Portugal, after their coming out in the Portuguese Parliament back in May, 2015. Since then API, with the help of the other founder and trans activist Júlia Mendes Pereira, have been advocating for the Human Rights of intersex persons, and gender self-determination, achieving already the Portuguese Government’s commitment by several meetings and official workshops and a public announcement that a new legislation securing the prohibition of surgeries on intersex babies will be presented in 2017. Their goal is to broaden up the human rights recognitions, policies and protections regarding bodily integrity, gender diversity, and intersecting discriminations in Portugal.
They have a focus on Afro-Portuguese communities and aim to ensure access to stakeholders, and address racism in policies; API would like to see increased media representation of black, trans, and intersex people.
The Comite Visibilite Intersexe was set up in 2014 with the goal to create systemic changes in the lives of intersex people, particularly in relation to the health and support provided to intersex people but also through political action.
The Comite Visibilite Intersexe was set up in 2014 with the goal to create systemic changes in the lives of intersex people, particularly in relation to the health and support provided to intersex people but also through political action. The organization describes their governance structure as ‘horizontal operation and decision-making’. Their main strategies are capacity building, peer support and community building.
Jinsiangu was founded in 2012 as a social justice organization working to create awareness of and respect for intersex, transgender and gender non-conforming (ITGNC) people in Kenya.
Jinsiangu is a Kenyan-based organisation established in 2012 for the purpose of increasing safe spaces for and enhancing the wellbeing and respect of ITGNC (Intersex, Transgender and Gender Non Conforming) people in Kenya. They have been working to achieve that through provision of information, and undertaking research, advocacy and high visibility activities. They have also been working to enable gender minorities to overcome challenges through the provision of psycho-social support since 2014, community building & providing holistic empowerment opportunities, and facilitation of access to ITGNC specific health care. In tandem with this, they have been engaging in advocacy awareness campaigns and outreach work targeting medical practitioners, law enforcement and different partners including various departments of the Kenyan government.
This Body, Too is a feature-length documentary written, directed by and starring Arisleyda Dilone, a young intersex woman living in the U.S. The film aims to capture Aris’s experience growing up intersex in a Dominican-American family. Aris focuses on the influences of outside forces (her partner, her friends, the medical field and, most importantly, her family) as she seeks to understand her identity as an intersex-woman and a Dominican-American. Her journey takes her back to the Dominican Republic, where there is a long history of medical research of intersex bodies. This Body, Too will tackle issues of sex identity, gender identity, surgical interventions and mainstream perceptions of feminine identity.
Funding enabled her to shoot an interview with her former doctor that operated on her body as a teen (this interview will form part of the feature film This Body, Too) and complete a short film, Mami y Yo y mi Gallito (16mins, 2015), which revolves around her first conversation with her mother about her body.
