ARSI condemns the IOC’s policy requiring mandatory SRY gene screening for women’s sport as an unscientific, disproportionate, and discriminatory measure that undermines privacy, equality, and bodily autonomy. The policy relies on simplified genetic criteria that do not reliably establish competitive advantage while exposing athletes to exclusion, stigma, and disclosure of highly sensitive information. Sport must …
Since 1 March 2026, pursuant to Resolution No. 822 of the Government of the Russian Federation of 31 May 2025, the Russian healthcare system has been operating the Federal Register of Persons with Certain Diseases. The Federal Register includes detailed information on a newborn’s sex and information on the “detection in a child of congenital …
On 8 November, we celebrate the International Intersex Solidarity Day! One month ago, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the historic Recommendation CM/Rec(2025)7 on equal rights for intersex people. This document is the first pan-European standard comprehensively addressing issues of bodily autonomy, integrity, equality, and protection of intersex people from discrimination. …
On December 6, 2023, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 2069 regulating the procedure for medical interventions on intersex children, as well as changes in the content of the “sex” column in documents. Ilia Savelev, co-director of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, has analyzed the decree and prepared a visual explanation …
On May 30, 2023, a draft of federal law “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On Acts of Civil Status” and the Federal Law “On the Basics of Protecting the Health of Citizens in the Russian Federation” No. 369814-8 was introduced to Russian Duma. The draft law prohibits medical interventions for gender reassignment, except for …
The Association of Russian-Speaking Intersex, with the support of the NFP+ and Intersex.Ru organizations, sent an opinion to the State Duma and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation on draft law No. 369814-8, which prohibits legal gender reassignment in documents and medical interventions to change sex characteristics, with the exception of intersex children. …
For the first time in history, on October 1, 2020, at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council, 34 states called on the UN Human Rights Council to urgently protect intersex people in their bodily autonomy and right to health. Austria issued a statement urging the authorities to investigate human rights violations and abuses …
Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People (ARSI), Interseks.Ru, NFP+, and QIT-Initiative express their condemnation of draft bills on changes in family and civil legislation introduced by a group of the Russian Federation Council’s members for consideration by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on July 14, 2020. In our view, these draft bills, if …
The Association of Russian Speaking Intersex people and other Russian intersex organizations and intersex activists issued a new statement on language surrounding the intersex topics. The statement outlines the views of intersex activists regarding the use of the abbreviation “LGBTI” in communities with widespread prejudice and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and …
The full statement is available here [RUS]. This statement sets forth the views of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex regarding the content of the proposed amendment to paragraph g. 1 of part 1 of article 72 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the protection of the socially significant institution of marriage. The …
