Intersexuality - Dealing with Intersexuality

Socio-cultural Attitudes - Legal Traditions

Sexual Rights

The Evolution of Rights

  The WHO declaration demands, among other rights,

“the right of all persons, free of coercion, discrimination and violence, to…
respect for bodily integrity ….”

  The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000), mentions

Article 3: The Right to the Integrity of the Person:
1. Every person has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity.
2. In the fields of medicine and biology, the following must be respected in particular:
   - the free and informed consent of the person concerned …

These and similar formulations can be the basis for further progress. With regard to sexual rights, the law is still evolving, and today’s intersex advocacy and support groups are actively engaged in moving this process forward.