Support of Intersex People From Ukraine

OII Europe підтримує інтерсекс-людей з України, тих котрі виїхали з України та тих які зараз перебувають в Україні. >>

Photo of participants of the OII Europe Community Event in Paris, France 2023

Welcome to OII Europe!

OII Europe (Organisation Intersex International Europe) is the umbrella organisation of European human rights based and intersex-led organisations.

Find out more about our work here:

Resources

Demands

We are part of the growing global intersex community. Over the last decade intersex people around the world have formulated strong and clear demands for their human rights of bodily integrity and self-determination.

participants of the OII Europe Community Event in Zagreb 2019

Community


Annual Good Practice Map

The OII Europe Good Practice Map features good practice examples of positive change for intersex people within Europe. From legislation that improves the lives of intersex persons to funding opportunities for intersex-led human rights organisations the map covers a range of areas.

Please visit our Campaign page

On the OII Europe Campaign website you will find our Intersex Awarenes Weeks campaigns, that anually highlight a topic such as how to DEPATH INTERSEX or about the realities of Intersex Seniors.

OII Europe Publications

A selection of our toolkits and our Covid-19 Report


New Resource! Our Intersex Refugees and Asylum Seekers Toolkit is now available for download

Supporting your intersex child – A parents’ toolkit

Is it a boy or a girl? This is the question that is asked the world over when someone gives birth. Many parents will answer that question without much thought. But for a significant number the answer will be more complex.

cover covid-19 survey report - download the report here

Covid-19 Report 2020

Our survey report ”Covid-19. A report on the situation of intersex people in Europe and Central Asia” is an interex-led survey and the first one in Europe and Central Asia to specifically focus on the impact of Covid-19 on intersex individuals.

Intersex Refugees & Asylum Seekers – Flyer

Our new flyer highlights specific needs of intersex refugees and asylum seekers and provides a list of recommendations what current migration policies should do.

Protecting Intersex People in Europe: A toolkit for law and policy makers

The toolkit describes the areas of life in which intersex people are most vulnerable to violations on the basis of their sex characteristics, and provides detailed guidance on what to do to minimise or eliminate these violations.

toolkit standing up for the human rights of intersex people - how can you help

Standing up for the human rights of intersex people – how can you help?

Are you a policy maker, a health professional, a human rights defender, a teacher? We can all play a role to better respect, protect and promote the human rights of intersex people. Learn, how you can become a great intersex ally.



Dedicated topic pages

A selection of our growing topic section


Intersex & Sports

On February 25th, 2021 South African athlete Caster Semenya filed an application to the European Court of Human Rights to fight for dignity, equality, and the human rights of women in sports. She challenges the demeaning and intrusive regulations implemented by the World Athletics in 2018 that discriminate and prohibit some women, including women born with variations of sex characteristics, to participate in international competitions.
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Education

Intersex youth deserve an education where they can develop their full potential, safe & free from harassment & discrimination, and that represents them in an affirmative, positive & non-stigmatizing manner.
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Intersex Refugees & Asylum Seekers

For many intersex refugees other or additional reasons for persecution and discrimination can be their gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). On their arrival in Europe they are entering into a country where intersex is still stigmatized and a taboo, where there is still too little awareness of what it means to be intersex, and where non-consensual surgeries and treatments of intersex people are still the norm.
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IGM & FGM

While many legal contexts do not explicitly address intersex genital mutilation (IGM), female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely addressed in the European legal landscape. This legal differentiation, though, is largely arbitrary, and based in the same cultural assumptions and stereotypes that threaten the rights of intersex people to begin with.
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Employment

Intersex people are belonging to the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in our society. This is also true in regards of their socio-economic situation: Ongoing discrimination, stigmatisation and the consequences of human rights violations is preventing intersex people from experiencing full equality in the area of employment.
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Intersex Seniors

Older intersex people face very specific challenges and needs, and while there is still very little knowledge and research available on this particular topic, we created a campaign on intersex seniors for Intersex Awareness weeks 2022 Yellow. Purple. Silver. – What about intersex seniors? to highlight some of the few existing findings. Please visit the campaign page to learn more on this topic.
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Do you want to support our work?


#10YIIF

10 Years International Intersex Forum
IAW Campaign 2021

#InterVisibility

We speak many languages – visit our multilingual community website

#IntersexLives

Learn about the dreams, hopes and fears of intersex people in Europe



Want to learn more about the experiences of intersex people living in Europe in their own voices?

Read our 108-pages strong brochure “#MyIntersexStory – Personal accounts by intersex people living in Europe” with fifteen testimonies by intersex people and their families and with fifteen colourful illustrations by intersex artist and OII Europe staff member Ins A Kromminga. This book also includes a text by intersex scholar and sociology professor Janik Bastien Charlebois “On our own terms and in our own words”: The value of first-person accounts of intersex experience.

Check out our campaign website under
Title of the publication My-Intersex-Story

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