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Brújula Intersexual (Intersex Compass) is a voluntary organisation for intersex people that promotes the human rights and bodily autonomy of intersex people in Mexico, and across Latin America.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: El Mundo (Spain), Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, InterACT, International Intersex Forum, Intersex, Intersex Awareness Day, Intersex civil society organizations, Intersex human rights, Intersex medical interventions, Intersex rights in Mexico, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Natasha Jiménez, Sex–gender distinction, The Guardian, UAM Xochimilco.

  2. Intersex medical and health organizations
  3. Intersex rights in Mexico
  4. Intersex rights organizations
  5. Intersex support groups

El Mundo (Spain)

(), before, is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain.

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages Spanish, French, and Portuguese CIDH, Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos, Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme, Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS).

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Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR or IACtHR) is an international court based in San José, Costa Rica.

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InterACT

Advocates for Informed Choice, dba interACT or interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization advocating for the legal and human rights of children with intersex traits. Brújula Intersexual and interACT are intersex medical and health organizations, intersex rights organizations and intersex support groups.

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International Intersex Forum

The International Intersex Forum is an annual event organised, then later supported, by the ILGA and ILGA-Europe that and organisations from multiple regions of the world, and it is believed to be the first and only such intersex event. Brújula Intersexual and International Intersex Forum are intersex rights organizations.

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Intersex

Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".

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Intersex Awareness Day

Intersex Awareness Day is an internationally observed awareness day each October 26, designed to highlight human rights issues faced by intersex people.

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Intersex civil society organizations

Intersex civil society organizations have existed since at least the mid-1980s. Brújula Intersexual and Intersex civil society organizations are intersex rights organizations.

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Intersex human rights

Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals, that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." Intersex persons often face stigmatisation and discrimination from birth, particularly when an intersex variation is visible.

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Intersex medical interventions

Intersex medical interventions (IMI), sometimes known as intersex genital mutilations (IGM), are surgical, hormonal and other medical interventions performed to modify atypical or ambiguous genitalia and other sex characteristics, primarily for the purposes of making a person's appearance more typical and to reduce the likelihood of future problems.

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Intersex rights in Mexico

In Mexico there are no explicit rights reserved to intersex persons, no protections from non-consensual cosmetic medical interventions on intersex children and no legislative protection from discrimination.

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Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics is a triannual academic journal that was established in 2011 and published by Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Foundation for Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics.

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Natasha Jiménez

Natasha Jiménez is a trans and intersex activist and author who is currently the General Coordinator for MULABI, Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, the first host of the Intersex Secretariat for ILGA.

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Sex–gender distinction

While in ordinary speech, the terms sex and gender are often used interchangeably, in contemporary academic literature, the terms often have distinct meanings, especially when referring to people.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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UAM Xochimilco

UAM Xochimilco is one of the five academic units of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.

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See also

Intersex medical and health organizations

Intersex rights in Mexico

Intersex rights organizations

Intersex support groups

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brújula_Intersexual

Also known as Intersex Compass.