Natasha Jiménez is a

trans Trans- is a Latin prefix meaning "across", "beyond", or "on the other side of". Used alone, trans may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Trans (festival), a former festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom * ''Trans'' (film ...

and

intersex Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...

activist and author who is currently the General Coordinator for MULABI, Latin American Space for Sexualities and Rights, the first host of the Intersex Secretariat for

ILGA Ilga or ILGA may refer to: * Ilga (river), a river in Russia, tributary of the Lena * International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, or ILGA * Illinois General Assembly, in the United States * Ilga, a Latvian feminine given ...

. She is an advisory board member for the first intersex human rights fund and participated in the first intersex hearing on human rights before the

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR or, in the three other official languages Spanish, French, and Portuguese CIDH, ''Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos'', ''Commission Interaméricaine des Droits de l'Homme'', ...

Activism

An intersex and trans activist for over 30 years, Jiménez started her activism in feminist and LGBT movements in Latin America, and speaks at a range of national and international human rights institutions. In ''Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas'', Rosa-Linda Fregoso and Cynthia Bejarando Jímenez remarks, In March 2013, Jiménez, together with

Mauro Cabral Mauro Cabral Grinspan, also known as Mauro Cabral, is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist, who serves as the executive director of GATE. A signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles, his work focuses on the reform of medical protocols and law ...

, Paula Sandrine Machado and

Pidgeon Pagonis Pidgeon Pagonis (born 1986) is an American intersex activist, writer, artist, and consultant. They are an advocate for intersex human rights and against nonconsensual intersex medical interventions. Early life and education Pagonis was born in ...

testified to the

on ''Situation of Human Rights of Intersex Persons in the Americas''. The first hearing on intersex human rights before the Commission, each shared their personal experiences and presented broader issues, such as "normalization" surgery on the genitals of intersex infants.Situation of Human Rights of Intersex Persons in the Americas
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, March 21, 2013 In 2015, Jiménez joined an international advisory board for a first philanthropic Intersex Human Rights Fund established by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. In 2016, the role of Intersex Secretariat of ILGA was passed to

Miriam van der Have Miriam van der Have is an intersex human rights activist and woman with androgen insensitivity syndrome. She is a co-founder and co-chair of OII Europe e.V in 2015, co-founder and managing director of NNID Foundation in the Netherlands and memb ...

Works

Jiménez has contributed to ''Inter: Erfahrungen intergeschlechtlicher Menschen in der Welt der zwei Geschlechter'', edited by Elisa Barth et al., ''What is the Point of a Revolution if I Can’t Dance'' by Jane Barry and Jelena Dordevic, and ''Interdicciones'' edited by

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