Intersex Bodies: Global South Alliances
GATE is hosting a webinar to discuss the trajectories of intersex-led movements in the Global South, in its first iteration we’re having activists from Latin America and the Caribbean
GATE is hosting a webinar to discuss the trajectories of intersex-led movements in the Global South, in its first iteration we’re having activists from Latin America and the Caribbean
GATE has developed its new Strategic Plan to improve and expand trans, gender diverse and intersex advocacy globally.
GATE joins the international community to demand an end to all forms of female and intersex genital mutilation!
33 States call on investigating human rights violations and reverse discriminatory laws against intersex persons.
“This is an historic step forward for intersex communities globally”, say civil society organisations.
The right to truth is a key component of intersex people’s human rights. Read more about how you can support the intersex movement in our Right to Truth Briefing.
For Intersex Day of Remembrance, we call upon the international community to join intersex-led efforts to put an end to human rights violations in medical settings and to make the right to truth, justice and reparations a reality for intersex people everywhere.
More than 50 intersex-led organisations and groups from every region of the world have signed a joint statement to the World Health Organization condemning the repathologisation of intersex variations as “disorders of sex development” in the WHO International Classification of Diseases 11 (ICD-11), and medical classifications that promote early surgical intervention to “fix” intersex bodies.
World Health Day is celebrated on April 7, and this year the theme is Universal Health Coverage (UHC). According to WHO: “UHC MEANS THAT ALL INDIVIDUALS AND… Read More »World Health Day 2019 – Universal Health Coverage
So-called “normalizing” procedures aimed to modify sex characteristics without being personally consented to and justified by medical reasons irreversibly mutilate our bodies, our experiences, our lives, ourselves.
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In November 2018, 50 intersex, trans and gender diverse activists and allies from more than 20 countries participated in the second Activist Delegation to the International WPATH Symposium in Buenos Aires. Prior to the symposium, the Activists’ Delegation held their own meeting to share, plan and strategize on depathologization worldwide.
The meeting was particularly significant in a context strongly characterized by social and institutional violence against intersex, trans and gender diverse people, and the global rise in attacks from religious and political movements against the so-called “gender ideology”.