Primarycareproviders
This category contains articles that may be of interest to people who work in primary care and encounter sex diversity in their practice.
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.
Intersex is a social concept because intersex people have to deal with the social consequences of living in a society that is set up completely on the idea that there are two types of people: men and women. The reality is much more complex (in both the aspects of gender and sex). Although intersex is a social concept, sometimes intersex people do need some kind of healthcare. Here you will find information on healthcare for intersex people.
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.
This article starts with a theoretical explanation of why intersex people are not visible in society and then goes into the question of what stands in the way of a coming out.
The European Parliament passed an important resolution on intersex in 2019.
