OII expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling
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Curtis Senior Member
Age : 53 Joined : 28 Jun 2007 Posts : 2628 Location : La plančte Terre Languages/Langues/Idiomas/Sprachen : En/Fr/Es/Sv/De
Subject: OII expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:31 am
Press Release Curtis E. Hinkle, Organisation Intersex International http://www.intersexualite.org/ For immediate release The Organisation Intersex International expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling
The Board Members of OII from various countries all over the world wish to express our solidarity with Christiane Völling, an intersexed woman from Germany who is suing a doctor for having surgically assigned her male without her consent.
We find her story very tragic and unfortunately it is typical of the treatment that many intersexed people around the world have endured. Many intersexed people are lied to and are not only forced to live in bodies which have been altered without their consent but also as a sex which is alien to their own sense of self.
From the beginning, we have opposed not only early surgical sex assignments but the motivation behind such assignments: to forcefully assign all intersexed infants as male or female without any input from the children themselves.
Subject: OII expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling 
Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:31 am
