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Germany’s Third-Gender Law Fails on Equality, in The Advocate

By Hida / November 6, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Yes, there’s more to say about Germany’s new third gender law, especially to readers that understand the LGBTI perspective and the issues that affect us.  Also, I got to correct inaccurate press statements about Australia’s third gender law applying to intersex babies, which it doesn’t, just adults who want it. Read “Germany’s Third Gender […]

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Why We Must Protect Intersex Babies, in The Advocate

By Hida / September 28, 2013 / 0 Comments

    I spoke so much in the 90’s and the first decade of the 21st century about the serious harms caused by medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex babies — which I and other intersex people call “intersex genital mutilation”, or IGM — that my essays in the past few years have focused […]

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Cosmetic Genital Surgery/Sex Re-assignment of Intersex Babies is wrong: Case Closed

By Hida / September 20, 2013 / 0 Comments

(FINALLY, a new blog post! 🙂 ) A few weeks ago, I testified as an expert witness on the television show Caso Cerrado (translation: Case Closed). It’s kind of like People’s Court but in Spanish, and is the first television show on a Spanish language station to have been nominated for an Emmy. I was […]

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Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents

By Hida / May 16, 2013 / 0 Comments

I am touched and excited to announce my new free resource for parents of intersex newborns: Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents. It is available in two versions: — Your Beautiful Child Tri-fold Brochure — Your Beautiful Child One-Sheet Version This project was a labor of love, inspired by the many mothers who have asked […]

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