OII-USA
| Abbreviation | OII-USA |
|---|---|
| Formation | February 2011 |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | Intersex human rights |
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Region served
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United States |
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Executive Director
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Hida Viloria |
| Website | oii-usa.org |
The Organisation Intersex International - United States of America (OII-USA) is the U.S. affiliate of The Organisation Intersex International (OII), a non-governmental organization that advocates for the human rights of intersex people.
OII-USA was founded in February 2011. The director is author and activist Hida Viloria.Dana Zzyym has been the associate director since February 19, 2015, when intersex activists Dr. Dani Lee Harris, Hida Viloria, and Zzyym re-branded OII-USA by co-founding the Intersex Campaign for Equality (ICE).
OII-USA aims to campaign for the human rights of intersex people, particularly rights to self-determination and bodily integrity. It also aims to support intersex individuals, and provide information on the actual life experiences of people with intersex variations to professionals working providing services to them, including medical personnel, psychological experts, sexologists, sociologists and academics.
The Intersex Campaign for Equality (a.k.a. OII-USA), is a multi-gendered, multi-orientation, multi-racial NGO founded by and for intersex people. The Intersex Campaign for Equality's mission is to attain human rights—particularly the rights to bodily integrity, self-determination, legal recognition, and de-pathologization—for all intersex people regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ability or class, recognizing that some intersex individuals, particularly those with nonbinary gender identities, remain marginalized even within the intersex community.
OII-USA advocates for human rights for intersex people in the United States via personal communication, consulting, public speaking, publishing, and lobbying. The organization also provides peer support, news updates, information, and educational events and lectures. They have lobbied extensively in the press and in print against intersex genital mutilation, aka medically unnecessary "normalizing" genital surgeries and hormone treatments of intersex infants and minors, and against discriminatory regulations for intersex female athletes.
In 2011, founder and director Hida Viloria lobbied the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for inclusion of intersex people, as the "I" in "LGBTI", in LGBT anti-discrimination policies. On Intersex Awareness Day, October 26, 2012, OII-USA published the free educational resource Brief Guidelines for Intersex Allies. In May 2013, OII-USA published Your Beautiful Child: Information for Parents, a resource of non-stigmatizing information for parents, authored by Viloria, which includes links to unbiased medical studies regarding medically unnecessary surgeries for intersex people, and is being utilized by health care providers around the world.
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