Location: Sofia
42.697708, 23.321868
Bilitis Resource Center Foundation
Bilitis was founded in 2004 as an LBT women’s self-help group.
Bilitis was founded in 2004 and is now the oldest LGBTI organization in Bulgaria. Their intersex work is intersex–led. They advocate for protection against discrimination based on gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics in employment; to ban the “normalizing” surgery of intersex infants; for a quick, transparent and accessible process for legal gender recognition including for intersex people. They work on LGBTI issues in education, with the publication of studies on the experience of LGBTI students and LGBTI teachers. They are participating in the Bring-In project, funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme, to promote the equality of intersex people in Greece, Hungary, UK and Bulgaria, by educating socialand healthcare professionals on how to recognize, prevent and combat discrimination towards intersex people, while raising public awareness and advocating for actions to combat the human rights violations intersex people face.
students and LGBTI teachers. They are participating in the Bring–In project, funded by the European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme, to promote the equality of intersex people in Greece, Hungary, UK and Bulgaria, by educating socialand healthcare professionals on how to recognize, prevent and combat discrimination towards intersex people, while raising public awareness and advocating for actions to combat the human rights violations intersex people face.
