Welcome!
I’m Hida (pronounced “Heeda”), a Latine-American writer, author and speaker.
This site shares my writing and my some of my work creating mainstream awareness about my intersex community.
Intersex
refers to being born with biological sex traits (gonads, genitalia, and/or choromosomes) that are a blend of male and female or are atypical for either. In the West we were known as hermaphrodites until the mid 1990’s, when “intersex” came into use, and some of us, including yours truly, call ourselves herms.
The Spectrum of Sex:
The Science of Male, Female and Intersex
Born Both:
An Intersex Life
Quoted in the LA Times about the Olympics’ unsound policies for intersex women:
Is sex testing in the Olympics a fool’s errand? I’m quoted in the Los Angeles Times in an article by Jon Bardin about the […]
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Quoted in Guardian UK
I’m quoted today from my recent letter in The NY Times in this KICK-ASS article by Katrina Karkazis (author of Fixing Sex) and Rebecca […]
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Keynote presentation at UC Davis Intersex Awareness Week
Intersex Awareness Week is held annually in late February as a time of education and awareness around intersex issues and experiences. It is organized under […]
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