The Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, represented by our co-director Alli, is pleased to be part of this important statement in support of intersex people at the ILGA Europe conference. Collective pictures (с) OII Europe
Today the founder of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, Alexander Berezkin (47 XXY), took part in a protest organized by American intersex activists (Intersex Justice Project) near the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Intersex activists and their allies demanded that medical unnecessary operations on intersex children without their consent be …
Intersex children are in great need of protection of the law since their vulnerability is caused not only by biological differences but also by the peculiarities of the legal status of the child. On International Children’s Day, we would like to bring to your attention the first special publication [RUS] for lawyers, designed to shed …
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.”
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 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 …
