What is the Organisation Intersex International (OII) currently declaring about and for intersex people?
Instead of medical doctors declaring information about intersexuality, intersex individuals would like to speak for themselves. OII is an organization that helps to do this. 1) Intersexuality is not a medical condition: Intersex refers to those individuals of intermediate sex between what is considered standard for male or female in our societies. 2) Contrary to what is often asserted, the various degrees of intersex are not innately an illness or deformity. They are simply variations of the human body similar to length of the nose, the color of eyes, etc. 3) We reject medical categories for the various degrees of intersex, which are in fact only different reference points on a natural continuum of anatomical and genetic variations. 4) We stress the whole person from infancy through adulthood and choose not to focus on an individual’s genitalia. We are people, not genitals. As people, we have a right to our own genitalia and our own identity without interference, forced treatment or ot
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