What's new?

Below you will find the latest additions to our website. Click on the title to read the whole article.

OII's message of healing and hope
How common is intersex?
Mutilations or non-consensual normalization treatments?
Homochromosexuality: A new psychiatric disorder

Kenneth J. Zucker's attack on free speech
Letter from Bhakti Ananda Goswami, OII's Spokesman on Disability and Tolerance, to Father Kurylowicz
An open letter to Iain Morland
Did Alice write that? What?
Back Off and Listen, Morland!
What "Consensus"?
Dr. Anne Lawrence, DSM V and other agendas
"La Pastora Durrut" of the Maquis a heroic story of autonomy.
The self-proclaimed experts on intersex: Zucker and Lawrence
Euro DSD Project
Honesty at Last
Discordant Alliances
Mani Bruce Mitchell, on being intersex
Open letter to the IOC from Kristen Worley
Mexican intersex woman sets precedent for privacy for transsexuals on birth certificates
The Genderfree Manifesto
If there are seven sexes...  Then what am I?
Disorder of Sexual Management (DSM)
Against the Grain: Interview about Intersexuality with Katrina Karkazis
Pope Benedict versus Sophia
Fixing Sex - A Tour de Force (Book review)
Autogynephilia, a short and simple debunking
Unscientific Blogging
When HIPAA does not hurt.
Translating Intersex
Mater Salmacis Solanas, Amyn!
Psychiatric Politics: Who's lobbying Who at the APA? Apotemnophilia or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)
I am out of the box
OII now available in Chinese
The Quacks and Journalists who would be Vivi-sexuals.
An Intersex Mynifesto
OII’s Statement of Dissent
Two New Videos: David Cameron against Prop. 8 and "male" soprano Fabrice di Falco in Androgynous Reflections
Nookiadrome: The latest by Sophia Siedlberg in the Satirical Series, The Socio-medical Emergency Monologues
Interview with Katrina Karkazis, PhD - To listen to the podcast:  Click here
Disorders of sex development (DSDs), their presentation and management in different cultures
Long-Term Outcome of Disorders of Sex Development
Posters for Intersex Children
Intersex Solidarity Day – An International Success
Sexist Medicine
Misinterpreting Research Results: A Question of Ethics?
Being Intersex – a history – a state of being -  Tom Odegard/Tom/Ms.G
Confusing Sex with Gender: How Researchers Harm their Subjects
Salmacis: The Little Trilogy (Short history of different waves of feminism from a personal perspective)
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES VS. JENNIFER B. CAGANDAHAN
Art work by Joëlle-Circé Laramée, Vice President of OII
Visit our new library
Video: Five Genders
A queer feminist perspective on intersex activism
Cooperative Community not a Stonewalling
The Stonewall Migraine
The Conflict of Disinterest (Commentary on Julie Bindel's nomination for a Stonewall Award)
Not a Disorder Blog
Blog: Alice Dreger and Disorders of Sex Development   (This blog is for serious researchers and others interested in the DSD controversy and the facts about Alice Dreger's involvement in this radical pathologization of intersex)
Blog: Disorders of Sex Development   (This blog is for serious researchers and others interested in the DSD controversy)
DSD Warning Labels
The Philosophical Questions about Genetics and Intersex
The truth about Human Nature
Intersex: I am not Disordered, I am Human
Ambiguous Medicine and Sexist Genetics: A Critique of the DSD Nomenclature
The Socio-medical Emergency Monologues
Intersex Elder, David Cameron Strachan, receives Award for Volunteer Activism
Pink or Blue?  Humanity's true colours
OII-Germany now online with new website
An open letter to Alice Dreger from Sophia Siedlberg
Holding Respect For the Rainbow – Thoughts on Person Centred Gender  Written by Tina Livingstone
Telling the Truth about Chromosomes and Karyotypes    Written by Sophia Siedlberg
The Scientific Abuse of Genetics and Sex Classifications   Written by Prof. M. Italiano
The Unreliability of Sex testing in Athletics   Written by Sophia Siedlberg
Some problems with the new terminology for intersex     Written by Prof. M. Italiano

The most recent articles are about Cheryl Chase/Bo Laurent and the demise of ISNA:
Would the real Cheryl Chase please stand up?
Bo Laurent and the Accord Alliance: Anonymous Activism for medical interests
QUIZ for Bo Laurent - Cheryl Chase (and other aliases)
ISNA's documentation as a non-profit leaves more questions for intersex people who feel betrayed
OII expresses its concerns about the Forum on Genital Cutting
Bo Laurent, Accord Alliance or a Giant Discord Alliance?

Open letter to the organizers of the Forum on Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age
Handbook for Parents     Written by parents
Available in English, French and Spanish.
Zucker: Manipulation of Young Feminine Boys   By Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of OII
Zucker's GID therapy - DSM implications and deflections By Prof. M. Italiano, OII advisor on Variations of Sex Development
Intersexuality in the Family: An Unacknowledged Trauma   By Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC
Reality is a continuum By Tanguy Pinxteren, OII-member from Belgium and Co-founder of Genres Pluriels
DSD Guidelines: A bridge to mental disorders     By Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of OII
Deconstructing the Feminine Essence Narrative     By Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of OII
A Day in Neverland: The Neverland Essence Narrative and latent homosexuality     By Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of OII
Penetrating the stone wall of narcissism: Narcissistic rage within the medical and academic communities    By C. E. Hinkle
Alice Dreger played intersex people a nasty trick for Halloween  By Cynthya/BrianKate, OII-USA
A letter to America    By Sophia Siedlberg, Spokesperson for OII in the United Kingdom
A letter to America; A response from Peter Trinkl, Board President of Bodies Like Ours