Today is Intersex Awareness Day!
We must ensure the basic human rights, bodily autonomy, physical integrity, and self-determination of intersex people are upheld.
Earlier this year, APPG LGBT+ Vice-Chair Baroness Barker raised intersex/VSC issues in the UK Parliament for the very first time. She has also written to call for the UK to ensure its equalities legislation protects the human rights of VSC intersex people and that unnecessary surgeries are banned on intersex infants.
Want to learn more about intersex/variations of sex characteristics?
Read:
The UN Human Rights Office’s new Background Note on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People
OII Europe’s Protecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policy makers: https://oiieurope.org/protecting-intersex-people-in-europe-a-toolkit-for-law-and-policy-makers/
UN Free and Equal Info Sheet on Intersex: https://www.unfe.org/intersex-awareness/
Human Rights Watch report on medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children: https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/07/25/i-want-be-nature-made-me/medically-unnecessary-surgeries-intersex-children-us
Watch:
BBC’s The Intersex Diaries with Anick Soni, UK intersex activist: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06nk2kf
Listen:
Live Wires with Susannah Temko, 'My life being intersex’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p070bcpw