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Upcoming Webinar: Advancing Intersex Depathologisation

For centuries, the existence of people with innate variations in sex characteristics has been defined as a medical issue. Moreover, those variations have been identified as pathologies in themselves, regardless of their real impact on health and wellbeing. Intersex pathologization has played a key role in the promotion, perpetration, and justification of human rights violations
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Pathologization and Human Rights: our Submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Our submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in response to a call for responses on combating discrimination, violence and harmful practices.

Resources

Joint statement on the International Classification of Diseases 11

Joint statement on the International Classification of Diseases 11 (English / español / русский / français / italiano / 中文 / suomi / polski)

Media statement – International Classification of Diseases 11 and intersex people

More than 50 intersex-led organisations and groups from every region of the world condemn the repathologisation of intersex variations as “disorders of sex development”.

“Disorders of Sex Development” nomenclature and human rights violations

Health and Human Rights Journal published an article on “Intersex Variations, Human Rights, and the International Classification of Diseases” by Morgan Carpenter, August 2018

Submission on intersex codes in the ICD-11: Beta Draft

2017 community submission on intersex codes in the ICD-11 Beta Draft, led by GATE.

Publication of joint ICD submission

Publication of a 2014 community submission to the World Health Organization on reform of the International Classification of Diseases.

About

About this project

This is a project of InterAction for Health and Human Rights, commencing in 2024 and led by project coordinator Mauro Cabral Grinspan.

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