Hida for The Global Herald on the abuse of intersex Indian athlete Pinki Pramanik
Criminalized Because of One’s Sex? – Hida Viloria
By Hida Viloria; published on December 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm
On June 14th, Indian gold medal winner Pinki Pramanik was arrested following accusations of rape and “being male” by her live-in partner. She was suspended from her job, detained in a male ward, and an MMS of one of her mandatory gender-verification tests, in which she was completely nude, went viral.