Intersex people are traditionally discriminated by society. In order to draw attention to this problem, the co-director and lawyer of our organization Ilya participated in the May Day procession with the banner “Stop discrimination against intersex people.”
Association of Russian Speaking Intersex people has launched a brochure “Intersex people: questions and answers” that provides basic information on intersex people, intersex variations, human rights of intersex people, as well as our recommendations to parents of intersex children and doctors working with intersex patients.
The co-director and lawyer of the organization, Ilia, gave a brief comment to the Snob portal about the situation with the rights of intersex people in Russia and in the world.
On October 23, 2017, the Ministry of Health approved order No. 850n, which provides for a complicated procedure for changing the legal sex in Russia. In addition to the reprehensible psychopathologization of transgender people, this procedure seems unfair to us in regard to intersex people, so we decided to find out the position of the …
On February 27, 2018, the co-director and lawyer of the organization, Ilia, took part in the Scientific and Practical Conference “Days of Science of the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics – 2018. Modern Technologies and Law”. The participant presented a report on the normalization of the bodies of intersex people as …
Our organization, in collaboration with colleagues from the LGBTQIA Resource and the Italian organization Intersexioni, organized a presentation by a psychologist, sexologist, and intersex researcher, Dr. Massimo Di Grazia from the Institute for Maternal and Child Health (Burlo Garofolo, Trieste Italy).
On November 25, 2017, Alexander Berezkin made a video report on the features of the work of a psychologist with intersex at the 1st scientific and practical conference “Invisible People: Psychological Features of Working with Minorities”, organized by the project “Psychology of a Free Human” in St. Petersburg. The co-director and lawyer of the organization, …
On October 29, the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People, with the support of the Initiative Group “Coming Out”, held the first training in Russia for lawyers on the human rights of intersex people. The event was attended by 10 lawyers and law students from 8 cities of Russia. The training included consideration of such …
We present to your attention the first Russian-language collection [RUS] dedicated to the stories of intersex people from our organization from Russia and Kazakhstan. We are grateful to the initiative group “Coming Out” for the compilation, design, layout, publication, and distribution of this collection.
