Hida Viloria
| Hida Viloria | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 1968 (age 49) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer, Author, LGBTI Activist |
| Known for | Born Both: An Intersex Life; Pioneer in intersex and Non-binary activism |
Hida Viloria (born May 29, 1968) is a Latinx American writer, author of Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette Books), and intersex and non-binary rights activist of Colombian and Venezuelan descent. Viloria is Founding Director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality, and uses the gender-neutral pronouns "s/he," "he/r," and "he/rs" to acknowledge he/r identity as an intersex, gender-fluid feminist of female upbringing
Viloria was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, to recently immigrated Colombian and Venezuelan parents. He/r father, a physician, and mother, an ex-school teacher, chose to register and raise he/r as female without subjecting he/r to medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries, also known as intersex genital mutilation (IGM), that were routinely recommended at the time for intersex children with genital variance like he/rs.
In 1996, Viloria participated in the first international intersex retreat. S/he reports that, eager to meet people like he/rself, instead s/he “met people who’d been traumatized and physically damaged by cosmetic genital surgeries and hormone treatments they’d been subjected to in infancy and childhood, and it moved me to become an intersex activist.” In 1997, Viloria appeared in the first U.S. documentary about intersex people, Hermaphrodites Speak!,.
Viloria is the author of the acclaimed, Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hatchette Book Group, March, 2017), and has been published extensively on intersectional intersex issues such Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), its harms, heteronormative imperatives and similarities to FGM, discrimination against intersex women in sports, racism, sexuality, legal gender recognition, and gender identity, in venues such as The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Ms., The New York Times, The American Journal of Bioethics, the Global Herald, CNN.com, and others, and in he/r blog ''Intersex and Out.
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