Meet the team shaping ILGA World’s Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics programme

This new programme continues and expands our work on gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More and expression and adds new coverage specifically on sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More, working in strategic allyship with our member organisations.

Human rights violations for transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More and intersexan umbrella term for the spectrum of variations of sex characteristics that naturally occur within the human species. Intersex people are born with variations of sex characteristics (such as genitals, reproductive organs, hormonal and chromosomal patterns) that are more diverse than stereotypical definitions of male or female bodies. Up to 1.7% of the global population are born with such traits; yet, because their bodies are seen as different, intersex children and adults are often stigmatised and subject to harmful practices – including in medical settings - and discriminated against. More persons root in the assessment that violence, discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. More, and prejudice against persons of diverse SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics. More have a common cause: the cis-endosex-heteronormative, ableist, cultural, medical, and social model in which genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More and sexrefers to the classification of a person as male, female, or other - usually made at birth, written on a birth certificate, and usually based on the appearance of their external anatomy. A person’s sex, however, is actually a combination of bodily characteristics, including chromosomes, hormones, internal and external reproductive organs, and secondary sex characteristics. More are perceived as binary, mutually exclusive, medically normative, or a consequence of a person’s particular body.

Rooted in feminist analysis, the programme seeks to expand ILGA World’s work in the field, build bridges, and strengthen allyship with feminist and women’s movements.