Intersex civil society organizations
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Intersex civil society organizations have existed since at least the mid-1980s. They include peer support groups and advocacy organizations active on health and medical issues, human rights, legal recognition, and peer and family support. Some groups, including the earliest, were open to people with specific intersex traits, while others are open to people with many different kinds of intersex traits.
History
Intersex peer support and advocacy organizations have existed since at least 1985, with the establishment of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia in 1985.[1] The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (UK) established in 1988.[2] The Intersex 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]
Resourcing
International Intersex Forums
International gatherings are known to have begun in the mid-1990s, including an ISNA retreat in 1996 that brought together activists from North America and New Zealand, and also a summer school organised by OII-France in 2006. The retreat is documented in a short movie entitled Hermaphrodites Speak[4][5] and the film Intersexion, and the summer school in a book, A qui appartiennent nos corps? Féminisme et luttes intersexes.[6][7]
List of intersex organizations
This list contains both intersex-led organizations and some active allied organizations. <section begin="bycountry" />
Africa
Asia
Europe
- Association of the Russian-Speaking Intersex
- 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) [8]
Latin America
- Brújula Intersexual (Intersex Compass) (Mexico and Latin America)
North America
- 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
- 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
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See also
References
- ↑ Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia; Briffa, Anthony (22 January 2003). "Discrimination against People affected by Intersex Conditions: Submission to NSW Government" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-11. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ↑ "Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG)". Archived from the original on 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ↑ "Dear ISNA Friends and Supporters". 2008. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ↑ Hermaphrodites Speak!, Intersex Society of North America, 1997.
- ↑ Hermaphrodites speak, WorldCat, 1997.
- ↑ (in French) A qui appartiennent nos corps? Féminisme et luttes intersexes Nouvelles 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.
- ↑ "İnter Dayanışma (Inter Solidarity Turkey". Retrieved 2024-03-07.
