[1] IC4E advocates for human rights for intersex people in the United States via personal communication, consulting, public speaking, publishing, and lobbying.
In 2011, founder and director Hida Viloria lobbied the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for inclusion of intersex people, as the "I" in "LGBTI", in LGBT anti-discrimination policies.
Attaining the right to physical integrity and bodily determination through an end to the practice of nonconsensual medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex infants and minors—a.k.a.
This was done in an open letter authored by Viloria[5] signed by participants of the Forum and delivered to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay.
Southeastern Regional Rep. Dani Lee Harris, of Atlanta, has been educating and advocating for an end to IGM for years via lectures in his Southern Baptist community, and did so in the 2012 intersex documentary Intersexion.
Articles specifically focusing on intersex birth registrations by Hida Viloria can be found at The Advocate[18] and The Global Herald.
[22][23][24] With Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez-Patiño,[25] Viloria has argued that Olympic sex testing is applied in a way that targets only "butch" women, those who are "masculine looking".
[23] On International Human Rights Day 2013, Vilora spoke as director of IC4E at the United Nations event, "Sport Comes Out Against Homophobia".
[28] In addition, in early 2010, before founding the organization, Viloria lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for equal treatment of intersex female athletes after the gender verification testing of South African track star Caster Semenya.
[29] Founder and Director Hida Viloria is one of the first individuals in the world to come out publicly as intersex, via numerous television, film and radio interviews beginning in 1996.
Since founding the organization in 2011, Viloria has published extensively on intersex issues, in publications such as The American Journal of Bioethics, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, The Global Herald, and Ms.[6] In 2015, on October 26, Intersex Awareness Day, IC4E Associate Director Dana Zzyym announced the filing of their groundbreaking lawsuit for a non-binary U.S. passport.