New FRA report Being Intersex in the EU sheds light on lived realities of intersex people in the EU
On September 17th 2025, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published their report Being Intersex in the EU, featuring an in-depth look at the data from 1920 intersex respondents to FRA’s LGBTIQ III Survey conducted in 2023 in 30 countries.
Ten years after the FRA’s landmark first report on the fundamental rights of intersex people, this new report sheds light on the still prevailing violations of their human rights that intersex people face across the EU and the alarming levels of violence, harassment and discrimination in daily life, with the rates having increased rather than decreased in almost all areas compared to the 2019 FRA LGBTI II Survey 2019 survey.
The report takes a closer look at thematic areas revealed by the findings from the FRA LGBTIQ III Survey, including discrimination, violence, intersex genital mutilation and conversion practices, health and healthcare, education, as well as homelessness and housing difficulties. It provides an exclusive look at additional disaggregated data, zooming in on specific groups of intersex people experiencing compounding and intersectional challenges based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, race and/or ethnic origin, and disability.
The last section of the report features recommendations addressed to the EU and Member States to ensure effective protection of intersex persons’ fundamental rights, including a strong call to end non-vital and non-consensual medical interventions on intersex children, based on the evidence provided by the survey on the absence of free and fully-informed consent prior to those interventions.
OII Europe welcomes the publication of the report and calls on FRA to continue collecting human rights-based data on the experiences of intersex people in the EU.
OII Europe press release on the FRA LGBTIQ III Survey
OII Europe FRA LGBTIQ III Survey infographics
