Kimberly Zieselman
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Intersex Human Rights Defender Author of XOXY: A Memoir
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Kimberly Zieselman
Outright International
about 1 month ago
At the launch, our Senior Advisor for Global Intersex Rights,
@xoxykz.bsky.social
, joined global intersex activists to deliver a powerful intervention calling for stronger allyship from global movements. This groundbreaking report is a tool for governments, advocates, and allies everywhere.👇
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A/HRC/60/50: Discriminatory laws and policies, acts of violence and harmful practices against intersex persons
SummaryIn the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 55/14, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights examines discriminatory laws and policies...
https://bit.ly/A-HRC-60-50
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Kimberly Zieselman
Outright International
4 months ago
Calling all
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activists and emerging leaders from the Global South and East! Register for our We Connect information session on June 12. 💻 👉
outrightinternational.org/take-action/...
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Dr Marta Prandelli
5 months ago
During the Intersex Insights event, we will screen Common as Red Hair, with a Q&A by Kimberly Zieselman!
@xoxykz.bsky.social
🎬 Join us in Dublin or online on June 9-10 ⏳ Register by May 19 🔗
dcu-snpch.zohobackstage.eu/IntersexInsi...
#IntersexRights
#IntersexInsights
#CHRISALIS
#MSCA
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"Those of us who are intersex have always faced medical and social harm. But what is happening now is something altogether different: the government’s attempt to erase our very existence." -- Kimberly
www.statnews.com/2025/03/20/i...
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My latest article for
@outrightintl.bsky.social
reflecting on
#intersex
advocacy with an inspiring group of global activists at the UN General Assembly during
#CSW69
in New York. 💜💪💛
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Our Bodily Autonomy is Non-Negotiable: Intersex Voices at the UN
https://outrightinternational.org/insights/our-bodily-autonomy-non-negotiable-intersex-voices-un
7 months ago
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Julie Cohen ❌👑
7 months ago
Columbia Caves to Donald Trump. A sad day for the university and for the future of American higher education.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-university-trump-demands-federal-funding-e94d41ca?st=iLNaud&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Kimberly Zieselman
7 months ago
A new piece from
@xoxykz.bsky.social
on the US government's intersex erasure. Despite Trump's insistence that only 2 sexes exist, "Intersex Americans like me can’t be erased by medicine or the government. We aren’t going anywhere, and we deserve better medical care."
www.statnews.com/2025/03/20/i...
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Trump administration policies will create worse health care for intersex people like me
“It seems the Trump administration is arguing that people like me are neither male nor female but simply ‘disordered,’” writes Kimberly Zieselman.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/20/intersex-people-us-trump-policy-health-care-existence/
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"Intersex Americans like me can’t be erased by medicine or the government. We aren’t going anywhere, and we deserve better medical care."
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Trump administration policies will create worse health care for intersex people like me
“It seems the Trump administration is arguing that people like me are neither male nor female but simply ‘disordered,’” writes Kimberly Zieselman.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/03/20/intersex-people-us-trump-policy-health-care-existence/
7 months ago
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Kimberly Zieselman
Outright International
7 months ago
This is exactly what we want to see from the United Nations, on the heels of the landmark intersex resolution by HRC55 in Geneva: strong support for intersex human rights around the globe. We are so proud to bring powerful activists and advocates to these halls of power.
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Speaking
#intersex
truth to power at the UN in NYC and getting amazing response promising to support "whatever initiatives are needed " from the UN Secretary General ! 💜🇺🇳💛
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Kimberly Zieselman
Outright International
7 months ago
Big news! Guess who’s hosting this year’s Celebration of Courage awards and gala? KARAMO! 🎤🔥 Emmy-winning host, producer, author, and activist Karamo has been a bold champion for LGBTIQ human rights. 35 years of impact. One night to be in community. Will you be there? 🎟️
bit.ly/COC25-Social
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It's Simple. Intersex Women are Women.
outrightinternational.org/insights/int...
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Kimberly Zieselman
Outright International
7 months ago
"On
#InternationalWomensDay
, let's recognize the urgent need to end violence, discrimination, and exclusion of intersex women for what it is: a core women's rights issue that everyone working for women's equality should embrace." 📖 ➡️
outrightinternational.org/insights/int...
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https://outrightinternational.org/insights/intersex-women-are-women-discrimination-and-harm-we-suffer-womens-rights-issue
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Proud to share as a Consultant Producer the world premiere of this superb
#intersex
documentary film at
@sxsw.com
! 🎬 More intersex stories less surgeries ! 💛💜
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The Secret of Me
SXSW 2025 Schedule | It’s 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During a feminist studies class, college student Kristi opens her textbook to discover something that turns her world upside down. For as long...
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/films/2206252
8 months ago
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Kimberly Zieselman
interACT Advocates
8 months ago
Intersex people exist, and will always exist, regardless of unscientific and political attempts at erasure.
interactadvocates.org/interact-sta...
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HHS Ignores Biology to Comply with Trump’s Executive Order
We are raising intersex visibility, empowering young intersex advocates and promoting laws and policies that protect intersex youth.
https://interactadvocates.org/interact-statement-hhs-ignores-biology-to-comply-with-trumps-executive-order/
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Kimberly Zieselman
interACT Advocates
8 months ago
Intersex people “have been documented for millennia. It’s nothing new. It’s not as if the president could say, ‘oh, this is some new trend, some fad,’ “ Bratcher Goodwin said. “What the president’s executive order and also this guidance suggests is that they’re invisible."
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Dr. Katharine Dickson
8 months ago
Just a reminder that the unqualified politician blowhard heading Health and Human Services has multiple long-standing, historically nonpartisan professional organizations of biologists and physicians calling him and his new department completely full of it
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Katie Hultquist
8 months ago
Essential analysis and call to action from
@outrightintl.bsky.social
Executive Director Maria Sjödin in
@advocate.com
about the harmful policies being enacted by the Trump Administration targeting LGBTIQ people, especially the freeze on U.S. foreign aid.
www.advocate.com/voices/us-ai...
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From PEPFAR to Peril, what happens when lifelines are cut?
The Trump administration's relentless attack on LGBTQ+ rights is not just a policy shift—it's a life-or-death situation for countless individuals worldwide, writes Outright International's Maria Sjödi...
https://www.advocate.com/voices/us-aid-cuts-global-lgbtq
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Kimberly Zieselman
interACT Advocates
8 months ago
Several intersex young people have now had passport renewals rejected due to their identity documentation not aligning with previous passport gender markers—the enforcement of this Executive Order is harmful to everyone!
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What You’re Not Being Told About Anti-Trans Regulations
Recent U.S. laws and regulations restricting medical care and athletic participation for transgender people actually affect more intersex people. Why is this not being discussed?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/governing-behavior/202502/what-youre-not-being-told-about-anti-trans-regulations
8 months ago
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Today Meta disabled both my Facebook Accounts without warning or reason. I have to assume it has to do with my intersex activism. 🤬
8 months ago
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Kimberly Zieselman
interACT Advocates
8 months ago
Trump's Executive Order defines “female” as someone who produces eggs & “male” as someone who produces sperm. "My intersex body, like the bodies of many intersex people, does not produce either gametes, arguably leaving us in legal limbo."
@xoxykz.bsky.social
www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/04/m...
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My existence as an intersex American was finally acknowledged, then erased four days later
Federal government now defines sex as 'male' and 'female.'
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/04/my-existence-as-an-intersex-american-was-finally-acknowledged-then-erased-four-days-later/
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Kimberly Zieselman
8 months ago
Our global survey on the impacts of the US foreign aid freeze on LGBTIQ communities is now available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Find them here and share them widely.
outrightinternational.org/insights/tel...
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Tell Your Story: Impact of US Foreign Assistance Freeze on Global LGBTIQ Communities
https://outrightinternational.org/insights/tell-your-story-impact-us-foreign-assistance-freeze-global-lgbtiq-communities
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"The probable purpose of Trump’s executive order is to whip up moral panic around the existence of trans people, but its blow no less impacts intersex people. "
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My existence as an intersex American was finally acknowledged, then erased four days later
Federal government now defines sex as 'male' and 'female.'
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/04/my-existence-as-an-intersex-american-was-finally-acknowledged-then-erased-four-days-later/
8 months ago
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Erin Reed
9 months ago
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it. It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
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Despite the turn of events in DC last week - let's keep up the good fight for bodily autonomy and well-being.
#intersex
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Better Late Than Never: Time to Advance Intersex Heath Equity
In 2022, on an oppressively hot and humid day in June, I stood in line with others outside a White House security entrance, sweating but excited to attend President Biden’s Pride celebration. It was…
https://medium.com/@XOXYKZ/better-late-than-never-time-to-advance-intersex-health-equity-2e843c03641e
9 months ago
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