- Organisation Intersex International
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The Organisation Intersex International (OII) is a global advocacy group for people with intersex traits. It is the largest intersex support group in the world.[1][2][3]
Founded in 2003 by Curtis Hinkle,[4][5] OII is a decentralised network established to give voice to intersex people primarily outside the USA, those speaking languages other than just English, and people who do not fit the medicalised categories of disorder promoted by some other intersex groups: it is for people born with bodies which have atypical sexual characteristics. OII rejects the terminology of disorder (as in Disorders of sex development), as well as the sexualization of intersex (as in intersexuality) within an LGBT framework; rather OII seeks to acknowledge intersex people's own distinct sexuality, or non-sexuality, or as people who may identify as gay, lesbian, trans or straight, and in alliance with people of diverse sexual orientations.[6][7]
Their objective is to bring about systemic change and resist the fear, shame, secrecy and stigma imposed upon adults as well as children through both the practice of non-consensual genital surgeries and the arbitrary assignment of a particular gender without informed consultation with the individual concerned.[8] The ethos of the group is that people will hold different views as appropriate to the individual; this often entails treating as optional socially and medically constructed categories such as binary genders, sexual identifications as well as specific and non-specific pathologisms; the identity human being being seen as the fundamental identity.
References
- ^ Diamond, Milton and Hazel G Beh (2008). Changes in the management of children with intersex conditions. Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism Jan;4(1):4-5. PMID 17984980
- ^ Still, Brian (2008). Online intersex communities: virtual neighborhoods of support and activism. Cambria Press, ISBN 9781604975925
- ^ Callahan, Gerald N. (2009). Between XX and XY: intersexuality and the myth of two sexes. Chicago Review Press, ISBN 9781556527852
- ^ Cohen, Stephan L. (2007). The gay liberation youth movement in New York: "an army of lovers cannot fail" Routledge, ISBN 9780415957991, page 121
- ^ Karkazis, Katrina Alicia (2008). Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience. Duke University Press ISBN 9780822343189
- ^ Holmes, Morgan (2009). Critical Intersex. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., ISBN 9780754673118
- ^ Rosario, Vernon (2009). Quantum Sex: Intersex and the Molecular Deconstruction of Sex. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 15(2):267-284; DOI:10.1215/10642684-2008-138.
- ^ Chiland C (2008). La problématique de l’identité sexuée. Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence Volume 56, Issue 6, September 2008, Pages 328-334
External links
Categories:- Intersex organizations
- Intersex rights organizations
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