20/04/2021
The EU Commissioner for Equality, Dr Helen Dalli will open
Intersex 2021- A Vision for the Future hosted by Dublin City University on April 21st and 22nd.
This is the first time that an international, interdisciplinary conference on intersex issues is taking place in Ireland.
The United Nations estimates that 0.5 to 1.7% of the global population are intersex.
Intersex is an umbrella term that includes more than thirty ways the human body is born differently according to its sex characteristics (e.g. hormones, chromosomes, genitalia, and/or sex organs). Some intersex people prefer describing themselves as having a Variation of Sex Characteristics (VSC) or atypical sex characteristics while in medical settings the term Differences of Sex Development is often used.