press release
Curtis E. Hinkle
for immediate circulation
The International Organisation Intersex expresses its solidarity with Christiane Völling.
Committee members of OII, which come from various countries around the world want to express their solidarity with Christiane Völling. Christiane Völling is an inter-sexual woman from Germany, a doctor sued because it was apparently operating without its knowledge to man.
We find her story very tragic and unfortunately it is typical of the treatment that many intersexed people had to endure in the world. Many intersex people was the truth about her intersexuality not told and they were not only in body, which have been changed without their consent, but also in a sex forced is not in line with their sense of self.
From the beginning we have opposed not only early surgical sex assignment, but also the underlying motives: all intersex infants with violence as male or female associate without any consent of the affected children.
To our official position on cell to check the health concerns:
Christiane's story:
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