IntersexualesChile’s main goal is to ensure an active network that can support intersex people as well as help and support families in making decisions regarding the health of future intersex children.
IntersexualesChile (previously Brújula Intersexual Chile) was founded in 2016 with the support of Brújula Intersexual (Mexico). Their main goal is to ensure an active network that can support intersex people as well as help and support families in making decisions regarding the health of future intersex children. The organization also aims incentivize personal well-being rather than performing corrective and aesthetic surgeries, which only end up harming the person being operated in a physical, psychological and social way. In addition to directly helping families, they are interested in being part of various working groups at the Ministry of Health to ensure that Chile complies with Memo 17, which stipulates that genital surgery cannot be performed on intersex babies. They see it as essential to have their rights openly known as well as respected.
This group came to be in 2018 under the name Intersex Chile as an initiative of Asociación OTD Chile, which was looking to direct funding and resources to generate a network of intersex people in the country who could, through their activism, mobilize the recommendations repeatedly reiterated by mechanisms of international law regarding genital surgeries.
This group came to be in 2018 under the name Intersex Chile as an initiative of Asociación OTD Chile, which was looking to direct funding and resources to generate a network of intersex people in the country who could, through their activism, mobilize the recommendations repeatedly reiterated by mechanisms of international law regarding genital surgeries. The process of research-action participation is implemented, the methodology of which allows researchers to make research decisions only when the group of intersex people actively participates and approves the project. After successfully completing this project by way of generating a network of 7 intersex people, funding is obtained for the group to decide how to implement their own intervention based on the results found in their community research.
