Groupe Intersexe Désirs / Inter-Désirs

GIDE’s goal is to disseminate knowledge about intersex people in the wider communities, to promote intersex people’s desires for physical integrity and self-determination, and to encourage a change of approach to the intersex issue

GIDE was created on November 8, 2020 in the wake of the celebration of International Intersex Awareness Day (celebrated in the West but little known in French-speaking Africa) to gradually contribute to disseminating knowledge about intersex people in the wider communities, to promote intersex people’s desires for physical integrity and self-determination, and to encourage a change of approach to the intersex issue, wrongly considered a disorder by the medical and educational world and a taboo by the rest of society. The main goal is to free intersex people from the yoke of customs and disorders and allow them to achieve their full potential. Thus the mission of GIDE is to contribute to social change concerning the perception of intersex to remove it from the realm of disorders and evil taboos and to gradually succeed in reducing and even eradicating all acts of social intolerance and physical violence perpetrated on the bodies of intersex children for the sake of social conformity without their prior consent.