Category «Education»

Video for parents of intersex children

October 26, on Intersex People Awareness Day the web-portal Illuminator publishes a series of video interviews “My child is intersex.” In short commercials, experts of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex answer the basic questions related to intersex variations, “normalizing” operations, raising and supporting children whose gender characteristics do not correspond to the medical definitions …

“Beyond male and female: intersex people rights”, manual for lawyers

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 …

Speech at the conference for psychologists

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, …

Training for lawyers “Human rights of intersex people”

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 …

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