Intersex civil society organizations
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Intersex civil society organizationshave existed since at least the mid-1980s. They include peer support groups and advocacy organizations active onhealth and medical issues,human rights,legal recognition,and peer and family support. Some groups, including the earliest, were open to people with specificintersextraits, while others are open to people with many different kinds of intersex traits.
History
[edit]Intersex peer support and advocacy organizations have existed since at least 1985, with the establishment of theAndrogen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australiain 1985.[1]The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (UK) established in 1988.[2]TheIntersex Society of North America(ISNA) may have been one of the first intersex civil society organizations to have been open to people regardless of diagnosis; it was active from 1993 to 2008.[3]
In May 2019, more than 50 intersex-led organizations signed a multilingual joint statement condemning the introduction of "disorders of sex development" language into theInternational Classification of Diseases,stating that this causes "harm" and facilitates human rights violations, calling on theWorld Health Organizationto publish clear policy to ensure thatintersex medical interventionsare "fully compatible with human rights norms".[4][5][6][7][8]
Resourcing
[edit]Intersex organizations are poorly resourced. An international report onThe State of Trans* and Intersex OrganizingbyGATEand theAmerican Jewish World Servicein November 2013 found that, globally, "just over $40,000 addressed intersex issues" in 2010. At that time, "6% of all funding for human rights work went to promote LGBTI rights globally ($72.6 million out of $1.2 billion in total)."[9]
TheAstraea Lesbian Foundation for Justiceestablished the first Intersex Human Rights Fund in 2015, in an attempt to address resourcing issues.[10][11]
International Intersex Forums
[edit]International gatherings are known to have begun in the mid-1990s, including anISNAretreat in 1996 that brought together activists from North America and New Zealand, and also a summer school organised byOII-Francein 2006. The retreat is documented in a short movie entitledHermaphrodites Speak[12][13]and the filmIntersexion,and the summer school in a book,A qui appartiennent nos corps? Féminisme et luttes intersexes.[14][15]
International Intersex Forumshave taken place since 2011, organized byILGA.These have brought together intersex activists and organisations from around the world, resulting in joint statements about human rights and bodily autonomy. TheMalta declarationof the third forum called for an end to 'normalising' practices, prenatal screening and selective abortions, infanticide and killings, and non-consensual sterilisation. It also made recommendations on sex assignments of intersex children and adults.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
List of intersex organizations
[edit]This list contains both intersex-led organizations and some active allied organizations.
Africa
[edit]Asia
[edit]Europe
[edit]- Collectif intersexe activiste(CIA-OII France)
- InterAction Suisse(Switzerland)
- Internationale Vereinigung Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen(OII Germany)
- Intersex Russia
- Intersex UK
- OII Europe
- Organisation Internationale des Intersexes - Francophonie(OII French-speaking)
- OII UK
- Zwischengeschlecht(Switzerland/Germany)
- Caminar intersex (España -islas Canarias)
- İnter Dayanışma (Inter Solidarity Turkey)[23]
Latin America
[edit]- Brújula Intersexual(Intersex Compass) (Mexico and Latin America)
North America
[edit]- Accord Alliance(USA)
- Brújula Intersexual(Intersex Compass)
- interACT,formerly known as Advocates for Informed Choice (USA)
- Intersex Campaign for Equality(IC4E), formerly OII-USA
- Intersex Society of North America(ISNA)(defunct)
- Organisation Internationale des Intersexes - Francophonie(Canada)
Oceania
[edit]- Intersex Human Rights Australia,formerly OII Australia
- Intersex Peer Support Australia(also known as AISSGA, Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia)
- Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand,also known as Intersex Awareness New Zealand
International
[edit]- GATE
- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association(ILGA)
- Organisation Intersex International(OII)
See also
[edit]- Intersex human rights
- List of intersex people
- Legal recognition of intersex people
- List of LGBT rights organizations
References
[edit]- ^Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia;Briffa, Anthony(22 January 2003)."Discrimination against People affected by Intersex Conditions: Submission to NSW Government"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2016-03-11.Retrieved2016-05-16.
- ^"Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG)".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-01-21.Retrieved2016-05-16.
- ^"Dear ISNA Friends and Supporters".2008.Retrieved2016-05-16.
- ^Intersex Human Rights Australia(2019-05-23),Joint statement on the International Classification of Diseases 11
- ^Crittenton, Anya (2019-05-24)."World Health Organization condemned for classifying intersex as 'disorder'".Gay Star News.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-02-20.Retrieved2019-06-02.
- ^Leighton-Dore, Samuel (2019-05-28)."World Health Organization drops transgender from list of mental health disorders".SBS.Retrieved2019-06-02.
- ^Barr, Sabrina (2019-05-28)."Transgender no longer classified as 'mental disorder' by WHO".The Independent.Retrieved2019-06-02.
- ^Wills, Ella (2019-05-29)."Campaigners hail changes to WHO classification of trans health issues".Evening Standard.Retrieved2019-06-02.
- ^Eisfeld, Justus; Gunther, Sarah; Shlasko, Davey (2013).The State of Trans* and Intersex Organizing: A case for increased support for growing but under-funded movements for human rights.New York:Global Action for Trans EqualityandAmerican Jewish World Service.
- ^"Introducing the Intersex Fund team at Astraea!".Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. June 16, 2015. Archived fromthe originalon July 3, 2015.Retrieved2015-07-02.
- ^"Boost for Intersex activists and organisations".SOGI News.RFSL.January 16, 2015. Archived fromthe originalon July 4, 2015.Retrieved2015-07-02.
- ^Hermaphrodites Speak!,Intersex Society of North America,1997.
- ^Hermaphrodites speak,WorldCat,1997.
- ^(in French)A qui appartiennent nos corps? Féminisme et luttes intersexesNouvelles Questiones Féministes, Vol. 27, No. 1/2008,Université de Lausanne.
- ^1ères Universités d’été des Intersexes et Intergenres d’Europe Paris - du 16 au 19 août 2006,OII-France,1 August 2006.
- ^3rd International Intersex Forum concludedArchived2013-12-04 at theWayback Machine,ILGA-Europe (Creative Commons statement), 2 December 2013
- ^Global intersex community affirms shared goals,Star Observer,December 4, 2013
- ^Public Statement by the Third International Intersex Forum,Advocates for Informed Choice,12 December 2013
- ^Public statement by the third international intersex forum,Organisation Intersex International Australia,2 December 2013
- ^(in Dutch)Derde Internationale Intersekse ForumArchived2013-12-20 at theWayback Machine,Nederlandse Netwerk Intersekse/DSD (NNID), 3 December 2013
- ^(in German)Public Statement by the Third International Intersex ForumArchived2013-12-26 at theWayback Machine,IVIM/OII-Germany, 1 December 2013
- ^(Chinese) 2013 lần thứ ba thế giới âm dương nhân diễn đàn tuyên ngôn,Oii-Chinese, December 2013
- ^"İnter Dayanışma (Inter Solidarity Turkey".Retrieved2024-03-07.
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