Policymakers
This category contains articles that may be of interest to policymakers within governments, businesses, and civil society organizations.
In 2006, DSD and intersex meant the same thing, but a lot has changed since then. Nowadays DSD stands for the medical aspects and intersex for the social aspects. Are they two mutually exclusive concepts or are they two sides of the same coin?
Intersex is about the lived experience of living with a body that does not fit the normative definitions of male or female. Here we talk about those experiences.
There is a great international intersex community out there. Even though the experiences of intersex people are extremely diverse, because no intersex individual is the same, intersex people often have similar experiences. Uniting with other intersex people can be of great importance for your mental health, happiness, understanding and acceptance of yourself.
What is intersex exactly? On this page we'll explain what intersex means and how sex is not binary but a diverse spectrum.
There are several regional declarations around the world that have been written by intersex communities. The Malta Declaration broadly describes what the international intersex community wants to achieve. Regional intersex organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America/Caribbean, and Oceania have added their own statements.
During this pandemic and now that many national governments have introduced intelligent lockdowns in Europe, NNID is asking for extra attention for the protection of intersex people.
How can you include sex diversity and intersex in your policy? And on what basis can you do so? It is often thought that ending the non-consensual, unnecessary medical treatments that are often performed on intersex children is the only thing intersex organisations work on. But in reality, sex diversity and intersex should be visible in many policy areas.
Interphobia is characterised by a dismissive attitude and negative feelings towards intersex and intersex people. Interphobia manifests itself as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy. This may lead to the discrimination of intersex people: excluding, insulting or treating intersex people differently. This article gives examples of interphobia and discrimination of intersex people.
The European Parliament passed an important resolution on intersex in 2019.
In this handbook written by Movisie and NNID, you can read more about intersex and what you can do as a professional. This is an updated version of the Handbook published by Movisie in October 2016.
