Clinton asked to not forget intersex community

Author // Serkan Ozturk

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Advocates for the intersex community have written to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to congratulate her recent landmark speech on LGBT rights, while also calling upon her to include the intersex community in her "quest to protect the dignity and rights of all humans".

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While lauding Clinton's speech, the United States branch of Organisation Intersex International (OII) has urged the politician to add "I" to the LGBT acronym when advocating for the LGBTI community and also to the State Department's LGBT Task Force.

"As you so eloquently stated in your address at the UN, 'those who advocate for the expansion of the circle of human rights were and are on the right side of history,'" OII US chairperson Hida Viloria wrote.

"Intersex people should be fully and equally included in this 'circle of human rights.'"

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OII Chairperson and OII USA director Hida Viloria's letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for full intersex inclusion in White House human rights initiatives

by admin on Sunday, 18 December, 2011 | Retrieved from the Internet on December 26, 2011 by SJ

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HIDA Viloria, Chairperson of Organisation Intersex International (OII) and Director of Organisation Intersex International United States (OII USA) has written a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking for intersex people to be included in the White House's recently announced global efforts on behalf of LGBT equality.

Ms Viloria, on behalf of all of OII, asks Secretary Clinton to include intersex people – some 4% of the world's population - by extending hers, President Obama's and the White House's support for LGBT human rights to LGBTI human rights with full and equal intersex inclusion.