ICE legal panel at Columbia Law School

On Intersex Awareness Day 2016, the Intersex Campaign for Equality (aka OII-USA) and Columbia University Center for Gender and Sexuality Law held a panel discussion on “The Right to Legally Exist”.

The Intersex Campaign for Equality (aka OII-USA) and The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law are pleased to present: “The Right to Legally Exist”, a lunchtime panel discussion on Intersex Awareness Day (IAD), October 26th, 2016 at Columbia Law School. The panel will feature OII-USA Associate Director, Dana Zzyym, and advocates from Lambda Legal.

Lambda Legal summarise the case to mark Intersex Awareness Day
Details of the legal case Zzyym v Kerry

This federal discrimination lawsuit was filed against the U.S. State Department on behalf of an intersex client, Dana Zzyym, denied a U.S. passport because Dana could not accurately choose either male or female on the passport application form, and the form does not provide any other gender marker designation. Though many intersex people identify as male or female, some – like Dana – do not.

Admission was free with lunch available.
Date and time: Wednesday 26 October from 12:10 pm – 1:15 pm
Location: Jerome Greene Hall – Room 646, Columbia Law School, 435 W 116th St, New York, New York 10027

The event on Facebook

More information at the Intersex Campaign for Equality (OII-USA)
The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law