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About the event
Today is Intersex Awareness Day!
An annual day of awareness organized every year to highlight the human rights situations facing intersex persons worldwide, and to celebrate their visibility.
October 26th marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in Boston. Where they demonstrated and shared their pain in a very public way, denouncing non-consensual infant genital surgeries and demanding the medical industry take notice.
Today is to support ending shame, secrecy, non-consensual genital and medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children. The day also provides an opportunity for reflection and political action. Between October 26 and November 8, intersex organizations bring attention to the challenge’s intersex individuals face. Culminating in the Intersex Day of Remembrance also known as Intersex Solidarity Day on November 8th, the birthday of Herculine Barbin.
Please also take this day and following days up to Intersex Day of Remembrance to celebrate our Intersex community members as we stand with them.
https://interactadvocates.org/
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