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Intersex oppression is a human rights issue

Started by Shana A, October 12, 2010, 07:32:10 AM

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Shana A

October 12, 2010, 07:32:10 AM
  Intersex oppression is a human rights issue

http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/intersex-oppression-is-a-human-rights-issue-56782.html

Intersex activists need to shift their focus from medical issues and the perception there is something 'wrong' with them and instead fight for equality under the banner of human rights, writes Hida Viloria.

10 October 2010

Unlike most other minority groups, the most tangible discrimination which intersex people have faced has been medical. I feel that this is partly responsible for why some intersex organizations have remained focused on medical issues as opposed to human rights.

However, the deeper reason is that few organizations besides Organisation Intersex International (OII) Australia have possessed members who were accepting enough of their own intersex to claim that intersex not being treated equally was a human rights issue.
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