intersex.shadowreport.org

Human Rights for Hermaphrodites, too!

Official estimates classify approximately 80 000 - 120 000 people living in Germany as intersexed. Following birth, some 95% of them were or will be systematically submitted to genital surgery and various other medical interventions - notwithstanding their personal rights, their physically and biologically determined construction and, without evident scientific proof. The intersexed people regard these massive and mostly irreversible interferences as a violation of their autonomy and as an undignified act of violence. Intersexuelle Menschen e.V. demands the full-fledged realization and implementation of the human rights of all intersexed persons. Germany, as a contracting party to CEDAW, CRC and CAT may no longer ignore the systematical infringements and violations, but is obliged to undertake “all appropriate measures, including legislation" to stop them.