Theme: We Keep Moving!
27-29th of November, 2025
Local Host: Intersex Greece
Over 121 intersex people, their family members and loved ones, allies & activists attended the event. Networking, learning, inspiring each other and keeping each other moving!
Participants arrived in Athens on November 26th. Participants came from 27 countries, including Europe, Central Asia, Maghreb regions as well as 3 guests from other regions.
The Welcome team was positioned in the lobby of the hotel, ready to welcome participants, register them, share the welcome pack, per diems and name tags.
The Awareness team was available to provide mental health support throughout the entire event and consisted of activists from OII France and Intersex Greece.
The interpretation from English to Greek and from Greek to English and the technical support for the interpretation during the event was done by the local interpreters.
Whisper interpretation throughout the event was done into Armenian, Spanish (by dedicated interpreters), French, Russian, Turkish (by participants).
The Participant Pack included information on all the topics relevant for event participation.
Publications of OII Europe and OII France were available throughout the event in the Community space room. Participants were also adding their own resources and merch to the table with the resources.
Topics of session included, among others (3 tracks, 27 session total):
- 10 Years of OII Europe
- Council of Europe Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons Plenary
- Organizational Development
- Solidarity and Support of Intersex People in Need
- Research Participation
- AI
- Intersectionalities
- Sexuality
- Hate Speech, Misinformation and Anti-Gender Movement
- Workplace & Employment: Experiences as an Intersex Person
- IGM Bans Implementation: A Dialogue Between Countries
- Global Intersex Activism
- Our other identities: Intersectional Intersex Realities
- Why and how to join the Steering Board of OII Europe?
- Assigned Male at Birth Intersex People Space
- Equality Bodies
- Intersex Artivism
- Intersex People with a Trans and/or Transition Experience
The participants particularly highlighted the opportunity:
- to have cross country connection and networking with intersex people and their family members
- the work of the Welcome team
- the importance and diversity of topics brought up as the part of the event program
- the overall warm atmosphere of the event.
The main request in terms of what they would like to change in the event was the wish for more days.
The most enjoyed and highly rated sessions at the community event were:
- 10 Years of OII Europe & Council of Europe Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons Plenary
- Sex and Sexuality Sharing Space
- Global Intersex Activism Panel
- And the Final Party
The Public Conference was held on November 28th, 2025.
Over 200 participants signed up through the event registration form for the Public Conference part of the event (including intersex persons, their family members, loved ones and support persons; policy makers, researchers and allies).
The program of the Public Conference included invited speakers, policy makers and researches, specifically:
Opening by
- Intersex Greece
- OII Europe Steering Board
- Maria Stratigaki, Deputy Mayor for Social Solidarity and Equality of the Municipality of Athens
Keynote Speech by Irena Moozová, Deputy Director-General for International Dimension of Justice Policies, Rule of Law and Equality, European Commission
Message by Young Greek Community Members
Intersex Rights: Moving Forward of Backwards? Panel (on the Council of Europe Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for Intersex Persons) with moderator Nikoletta Pikramenou and speakers:
- Prodromos Pyrros, Public Policy Adviser
- Evgenia Giakoumopoulou, head of the SOGIESC Unit, Council of Europe
- Katerina Fundedaki, professor of civil law at AUTH
- Dan Christian Ghattas, Executive Director of OII Europe
November 28th was the departure and debrief day. Despite it being sad that the event has ended, the organizers and participants supported each other in the dedicated event Whatsapp chat, which is still active!
Despite the massive amount of logistics, the event was a success, bringing in many new participants, allowing people to reconnect and meet new people, learn new things, share, listen, meet new friends, get recharged and inspired for continuing/starting their national activism and have a great time!
Some feedback OII Europe received included:
“See you again! And thank you for great work you did! Events like this make me a stronger warrior for intersex rights!”
“Every intersex person should get to know this beautiful world of oii events! It’s so amazing.”
“It was truly a pleasure to be part of the event. I found it both very informative and wonderfully social.”
Photos by: Ins A Kromminga, Audrey Aegerter, Tobias Humer
