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  • Intersex surgeries spark move away from drastic surgical treatments

    She was born to a young Chicago couple, named Jennifer, and grew into a beautiful long-lashed child with wavy dark hair, big brown eyes and a yearning, youthful desire to be just like all the other girls. Only she wasn’t…

    • 2014

  • Intersex Awareness Day calls attention to an often ignored, misunderstood community

    Today is Intersex Awareness Day, an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight the challenges faced by intersex people. It is often the case that the intersex community gets ignored, mis-categorized, or simply misunderstood. Worse still, intersex people are often denied even the basic right to self-definition, information, and knowledge and are sometimes forced to undergo medical and psychological procedures that damage and traumatize them for life.

    • 2012

  • Hundreds rally at Chicago’s first transgender pride event

    CHICAGO — Nearly 300 people attended Chicago’s first transgender, gender-non-conforming and intersex pride event, held at Union Park Sunday. The intention of the rally was to focus on the theme of “enterprising from the margins,” highlighting community driven efforts to create safe spaces and support among the TGI community.

    • 2011

  • 2011 marks advances in rights, visibility of transgender and intersex people

    Continuing a series of posts on the significant developments in the LGBT community in 2011, there were numerous advances around the world in the rights and visibility of transgender and intersex people.

  • Australia town believed to have elected world’s first intersex mayor

    Believed to be the world’s first intersex mayor, Councillor Tony Briffa has been elected in Australia., winning in the City of Hobsons Bay in the suburbs of Melbourne at the end of November.