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. …
We appeal to the Russian-speaking intersex community! We are conducting a survey about your experience in the healthcare system. How do you feel during the medical examination or treatment and what difficulties do you experience? Take a few minutes to raise the awareness of healthcare professionals about your needs. Take part in the survey right …
Our participant Olga starred in a film about intersex people in Russia. Olga talked about her experiences as a parent, relationships with her family and doctors, and acceptance of her intersex variation. The film can be viewed at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCGlQjajANg
After a months-long battle with Kazakh authorities, our client managed to obtain a new birth certificate for her intersex child that reflects his gender identity. During the initial examination, the doctors misdiagnosed the child and therefore registered him in the female legal gender. Currently, the diagnosis is correct, and the child has a male gender …
The co-director of the organization Ilia Savelev gave an expert comment for Afisha.Daily media on legal gender recognition procedure for intersex people in Russia. The article can be read here.
Dear intersex people, their relatives and allies! The Association of Russian-Speaking Intersex wishes you a Happy New Year, health, love and safety. This year has been challenging for us, but productive. Therefore, we are pleased to present you our new project – a portal for parents of intersex people – https://m-zh.club. Stay tuned.
Co-director of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex People Ilia spoke about the legal problems of intersex people for the Interseks.Ru project.
Ally, co-director of the Association of Russian Speaking Intersex, took part in the “Petya Pro: Intersex” program. At the show, together with other intersex people and helping professionals, he spoke about the needs of intersex people and the directions of intersex activism. The video can be viewed at the link: https://youtu.be/fmdxfc51S0g?t=1680
ИздаLifeNews has released a film about intersex people, including with members of our organization: co-director Alli and peer consultant Olga. The heroes of the film talked about their attitude to the binarity of gender, self-determination, and the experience of accepting their own characteristics. See the link for details.
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 …
