Hida Viloria Bibliography

Updated May 7, 2019

“Stop trying to make Caster Semenya fit a narrow idea of
womanhood: it’s unscientific and unethical.” The Washington
Post, May 3, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/03/stop-trying-make-caster-semenya-fit-narrow-ideawomanhood-its-unscientific-unethical/?fbclid=IwAR2pDyr8CgnLm6SWHWudRDPHsA0PhuHDr9omSt3LMYwPkDCIMlxPHP0c8&utm_term=.138a49146be6

“An Intersex Revolutionary General May Have Saved George
Washington’s Life.” OUT, April 8, 2019, https://www.out.com/commentary/2019/4/08/intersex-revolutionarygeneral-may-have-saved-washingtons-life.

“Intersex People Need to Be Included in the Fight Against the
Trump Administration’s New Memo.” NewNowNext, October
26, 2018, http://www.newnownext.com/trump-memointersex-awareness-day-response/10/2018/.

”Why the ‘X’ marks a step forward: An intersex individual
defends New York City’s new birth-certificate law.” New York
Daily News, October 14, 2018, https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-why-the-x-marks-a-step-forward-20181012-story.html.

“The Privilege of Pleasure.” ILGA-Europe Blog, February 14,
2018, https://www.ilga-europe.org/blog/privilege-pleasure.

“The Forgotten Vowel: How Intersex Liberation Benefits the
Entire LGBTQIA Community.” INTO, November 8, 2017,
https://intomore.com/you/The-Forgotten-Vowel-HowIntersex-Liberation-Benefits-the-EntireLGBTQIACommunity/144dc71da56d49b7.

“Doctors Resort to Nonsensical Reasoning to Justify Surgeries
on Intersex Children.” The Huffington Post, July 28, 2017,
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/doctors-resort-tononsensical-arguments-tojustify_us_597b9b19e4b09982b7376474.

Interview. Gore, Ariel, “Born Both: Intersex and Happy,”
PsychologyToday.com, May 24, 2017, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-and-happiness/201705/born-both-intersex-and-happy.

“Remember: Sex-Positive = Intersex-Positive.” The
Huffington Post, April 6, 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sex-positive-intersexpositive_us_58e6d8d7e4b0acd784ca56cd.

Interview. Pham, Larissa, “Intersex Activist and Writer Hida
Viloria on Being Born Both.” Rolling Stone, March 20, 2017,
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/intersex-activist-hidaviloria-on-being-born-both-w472894.

“Fear of Flying—or at Least the TSA—While Intersex.” The
Daily Beast, March 18, 2017, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/18/fear-of-flying-or-at-least-the-tsa-whileintersex.html.

Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Book Group, March 14,
2017), http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hida-viloria/born-both/9780316347846/.

“Why We Must Dismantle The Intersex Closet.” The
Advocate, February 16, 2017, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/2/16/why-we-must-dismantle-intersexcloset.

“Bisexuals Are Badass: Intersectionality Between Intersex, Bi
and GNC Communities”, hidaviloria.com, September 20, 2016, https://hidaviloria.com/bisexuals-are-badass/.

“IDAHO-T & Me: Thoughts on Inter Connectivity &
Inclusion”, hidaviloria.com, May 18, 2016, https://hidaviloria.com/idaho-t-and-me-thought-on-interconnectivity-inclusion/.

“What’s in a Name: Intersex and Identity”, in Queer: A
Reader for Writers, Jason Schneiderman (Oxford University
Press, 2016), 213-216, originally published in The Advocate,
May 14, 2014, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/05/14/op-ed-whats-name-intersex-and-identity.

“How Intersex People Identify”, with Dana Zzyym, Intersex
and Out (blog), July 10, 2015 (6:53 p.m.), http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/123759686830/how-intersexpeople-identify.

“Promoting Health and Social Progress by Accepting and
Depathologizing Benign Intersex Traits”, Narrative Inquiry in
Bioethics, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer, 2015. Reprinted in
Voices, Personal Stories from the Pages of NIB, Normalizing
Intersex Issue, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, 29- 32,
http://www.nibjournal.org/news/documents/Voices_2016_OA_FINAL- withOLOS_version_001.pdf.

“Hida Viloria”, in The Human Agenda: Conversations about
Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, Joe Wenke (Trans Uber Books, 2015), 67- 79.

“Stop Freaking Out About Intersex Athletes.” The Advocate,
September 18, 2014, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/09/18/op-ed-stop-freaking-out-about-female-intersexathletes.

“Caught in the Gender Binary Blindspot: Intersex Erasure in
Cisgender Rhetoric,” Intersex and Out (blog), August 18,
2014 (5:53 p.m.),
http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/95130298770/caughtin-the-gender- binary-blind-spot-intersex.

“The Third Sex: Then, Now, Never,” Intersex and Out (blog),
June 5, 2014 (12:53 a.m.), http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/87867457130/the-third-sex-then-now-never.

“How Now Pronoun?,” Intersex and Out (blog), May 21,
2014 (6:21 p.m.), http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/86444104270/how-now-pro-noun.

“What’s In a Name: Intersex and Identity.” The Advocate,
May 14, 2014, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/05/14/op-ed-whats-name-intersex-and-identity.

“Germany’s Third Gender Law Fails on Equality.” The
Advocate, November 6, 2013, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/11/06/op-ed-germany’s-third-gender-lawfails-equality.

“Germany’s Third Gender Law: Not What Intersex People
Most Need,” The Global Herald, November 4, 2013, http://theglobalherald.com/germanys-third-gender-law-intersexpeople-need/31095/.

“Why We Must Protect Intersex Babies.” The Advocate,
September 27, 2013, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/09/27/op-ed-why-we-must-protect-intersex-babies.

“Three Reasons This Intersex Lesbian Loved Abigail
Tarttelin’s Golden Boy,” Autostraddle, August 6, 2013, http://www.autostraddle.com/three-reasons-this-intersexlesbian-184477/.

“Intersex, the Final Coming-Out Frontier.” The Advocate,
June 13, 2013, http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/06/12/op-ed-intersex-final-coming-out-frontier.

“Hermaphrodykes on Bikes,” Intersex and Out (blog), June 9,
2013 (11:44 p.m.), http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/52601092584/hermaphrodykes-on-bikes.

“We’re Here, We’re Herms, Get Used to It!,” Intersex and Out
(blog), May 31, 2013 (7:04 p.m.),
http://intersexandout.tumblr.com/post/51836719842/werehere-were-herms-get-used-to-it.

“Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents,” OII-USA,
May 16, 2013, http://oii-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/InfoForParents2.pdf.

Viloria, Hida, “U.S. Ban on Female Genital Mutilation Mired
in Racism and Fear,” The Global Herald, February 13, 2013,https://theglobalherald.com/u-s-ban-on-female-genitalmutilation-mired-in-racism-and-fear/29098/.

Viloria, Hida, “Criminalized Because of One’s Sex?,” The
Global Herald, December 10, 2012, http://theglobalherald.com/criminalized-because-of-ones-sex-hidaviloria/28899/.

“Open Letter to the United Nations: A Call for the Inclusion
of Human Rights for Intersex People,” ILGA-Europe,
December 10, 2012, http://www.ilga-europe.org/home/issues/trans_and_intersex/intersex/events/intersex_second_ forum/open_letter_navi_pillay.

“Brief Guidelines for Intersex Allies,” OII-USA, with Claudia
Astorino, October 25, 2012, http://oii-usa.org/1000/information-intersex-allies/.

“Olympics’ New Regulations: Judged by How You Look,”
Ms. Magazine, with Georgiann Davis, July 30, 2012, http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/07/30/olympics-newhormone- regulations-judged-by-how-you-look/.

Letter. The New York Times, June 23, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/sports/in-box-the-aftermathof-clemenss-case.html; The New York Times, New York ed.,
June 24, 2012: SP 11. Print.

“Reexamining Rationales of “Fairness”: An Athlete and
Insider’s Perspective on the New Policies on
Hyperandrogenism in Elite Female Athletes,” with Maria
Martinez-Patino, The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume
12, Issue 7, June, 2012, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2012.680543.

“Clinton’s Pronouncements Against Female Genital
Mutilation Don’t Go Far Enough,” The Global Herald,
February 23, 2012, http://theglobalherald.com/clintonspronouncements-against-female-genital-mutilationdont-go-far-enough/27829/.

“X Marks Evolution: The Benefits of the ‘Indeterminate Sex’
Passport Designator,” The Hasting Center Report’ s Bioethics
Forum, December 7, 2011, http://www.thehastingscenter.org/x-marks-evolution-the-benefits-of- the-indeterminate-sexpassport-designator/.

“Gender Rules in Sport – Leveling The Playing Field, Or
Reversed Doping?,” The Global Herald, April 11, 2011,
https://hidaviloria.com/lobbying-the-ioc-on-behalf-of-intersexwomen-athletes/.

“My Life as a Mighty Hermaphrodite,” CNN.COM,
September 18, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/18/hida.viloria.intersex.athlete/index.html.

“Hida Viloria Tells Us What She Really Thinks,” SF Weekly,
October 10, 2007, http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/hida-viloria-tells-us-what-she-really- thinks/Content?oid=2164589.