Hida Viloria

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    Hida Viloria
    Date of birth 29 May 1968
    Place of birth Queens, New York[1]
    Nationality American
    Pronouns s/he and he/r[2]
    Gender identity genderfluid[3]

    Hida Viloria (born May 29, 1968) is a Latinx American writer and intersex and nonbinary rights activist, of Colombian and Venezuelan descent. Viloria is Founding Director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality, and author of the memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life.

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    "So when it came to finding out I was intersex, and I saw how all these surgeries happened because of the idea that everyone has to be either a man or a woman, I thought, 'Well, I have tried to pick my "true gender," and the truth is they are both me.' There was really no community around that and even in the intersex community it was still stigmatized, but I just felt there was no way I could hide it. In the same way that I wasn't going to pretend that I was white and not Latinx, I couldn't pretend that I was binary just to try to escape this."[2]

    References[edit | edit source]

    1. @HidaViloria (24 June 2021). https://twitter.com/HidaViloria/status/1419147063040880642 – via Twitter. Missing or empty |title= (help)
    2. 2.0 2.1 Pham, Larissa (20 March 2017). "Intersex Activist and Writer Hida Viloria on Being 'Born Both'". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
    3. Viloria, Hida (7 April 2017). "If You Claim To Be Sex Positive, Then You Need To Be Intersex Positive". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2020. As I write about in my memoir Born Both: An Intersex Life, I’m intersex and gender-fluid (meaning my gender identity and expression changes)
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