On International Intersex Solidarity Day, we present to your attention a translation of the book by Georgian Davis “Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.”, made by a team of authors with the assistance of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex. We would like to express special gratitude for the organization of the process, translation and proofreading …
Does your child have unusual sex characteristics? Why is my child different? How to talk about it? What have we done wrong? How to tell the family? These and many other questions parents of children with variations of sex development (intersex children) ask themselves from the first days of the baby’s life. Today, on Intersex …
One of the big problems with the intersex movement is the sensationalization and objectification of intersex people’s stories. The story of our intersex participant Olga, published in the collection of the Queerfest 2017 festival “My intersex story” was posted in the public domain without attribution on the site http://veteran.spb.ru. Our lawyer Julia turned to the …
Our co-director and lawyer Ilia drew the attention of the international community to the problem of violations of the rights of Russian intersex children. He made a poster, “Protect Russian Intersex Children Right Now,” to draw attention to intersex children’s rights violations that systematically occur in Russia and other countries.
On June 22, ARSI took part in a panel discussion on the development of the intersex movement together with Yuliya Pustovіt and Naydenov Paul. Intersex activist Artyom presented the position of ARSI as an organization based on the idea of a union, as well as on the topic of freedom of alliances of intersex and …
The information meeting “Intersex People: Questions and Answers” in Lviv was attended by 15 people, including OSCE staff, doctors of sciences, and human rights defenders. The event was held in the URBAN library with the assistance, organization, and full assistance of the regional office of Insight.
Our organization took part in a public action in Kyiv. On the poster, we demand the full realization of the freedoms that belong to every human being from birth and regardless of their sexual characteristics. In the photo – intersex activists Artyom and Paul.
We thank the researcher and JD Maggie J. Meyers for the academic article “Tragic and Glorious Pages”: The Evolution of Intersex Rights in Russia and Reframing Law and Tradition to Advance Reform,” published in Duke University’s Journal of Gender Law and Politics. The article thoroughly analyzes the activities of the founder and the work of …
Our organization held an informational meeting “Intersex People: Questions and Answers” in Irkutsk. The meeting was supported by the Russian Red Cross and the Loyalty movement. Doctors, Red Cross volunteers, and Irkutsk activists learned that biological sex is a spectrum of possible variations. The meeting participants got acquainted with the history of the intersex movement, …
Association of Russian Speaking Intersex people joined the statement against the continuation of the pathologization of intersex variations in the new version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), available in eight languages at the following link
