Fighting the Stigmas Against Intersex Peoples

Justice Matters

On today’s episode of Justice Matters, co-host Diego Garcia Blum speaks with Kimberly Zieselman, an intersex woman, lawyer, and human rights advocate with over 25 years of experience in nonprofit leadership. Currently, she serves as a Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons at the U.S. State Department and is also a senior advisor for Global Intersex Rights for Outright international, an organization dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTQI+ human rights movement. In this conversation, Zieselman discusses what is distinct about intersex, her own journey to discover late in life that she is intersex, the history of medical treatments used against intersex people, bringing a human rights lens to intersex issues, and fighting the shame, stigma, and misunderstandings around intersex people.