News

APRIL 2, 2010
Hida spoke on KPFA's "Pushing Limits" radio program regarding human rights for intersex people, particularly with regards to how intersex female athletes are being treated in the wake of the gender-testing of South African track star Caster Semenya.

APRIL 2, 2010
Hida will be presenting at the American Philosophical Association's 84th Annual meeting in San Francisco, on a group panel of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love. 7:00-10:00 p.m

MARCH 1, 2010
Hida quoted in article about the petition she's started to contest the International Olympic Committee's discrimination against intersex women.

NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Hida talked to Tyra about Intersex.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Hida speaks out about being intersex and Caster Semenya on CNN.com.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Hida will be on Inside Edition speaking about her experience as an intersex woman in light of the controversy over champion South African runner Caster Semenya's "sex-testing."

KRON Channel 4, 5pm in San Francisco; check local programming for time in your location.

OCTOBER 11, 2007
Well, the Sf Weekly misquoted me,
but at least they let me correct them!

OCTOBER 3, 2007
What Intersex Local Hida Viloria Didn't Tell Oprah:
How Hermaph-tivists Pander To Homophobes

See hightlights from the show and more on Oprah.com >>

MARCH 2010
Please help end discrimination against intersex women by taking a minute to read and sign my petition!

The International Olympics Committee is currently drafting policy which will force intersex female athletes to undergo surgery and/or hormone treatment in order to compete.

Let's show them we think this is wrong, wrong, wrong! I need as many signatures as I can get before April to make an impact.

Oh, and don't forget to include your Ph.D's or other credentials if you have them--it helps for this kind of thing.

LEARN MORE HERE >

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
Hida on Oprah

Growing Up Intersex and a Discussion
of the Book Middlesex (PG)

Boy or girl, how do we know? Meet people who grew up intersex. Also, a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides on the book club selection Middlesex.

Hida will be sharing what it's like to be intersex – without having been subjected to "corrective" surgery or hormones – with Oprah and her 20 million viewers. It's an activists' dream come true :)