News

April 26, 2011
Hida lectures on intersex at University of Santa Clara.

March 3, 2011
Hida will be the keynote speaker at the UCDavis Intersex Awareness Week.

February 23, 2011
Hida will be speaking at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

February 22, 2011
Hida will be speaking at Texas State University, Austin TX

October26-27, 2010
Hida will speak at NYU's Intersex Awareness Day events in New York City. Great to visit the old hometown and spread awareness there.

October 19-20, 2010
Hida will attend the International Olympic Committee's next panel of experts meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland to deliberate policy for intersex female athletes. I am thrilled that they have decided to include our voice in this deliberation, and honored to represent intersex people.

September 3-7, 2010
Hida hosts Taiwanese intersex activist Hiker Chui. Hiker won an award from her university to further her Ph.D. studies by travelling to the U.S. to meet leaders in the intersex activist movement. She is a brave, beautiful soul & I was honored to have her stay with me and further build our international human rights movement.

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.

February 20, 2010
Hida's Petition to The International Olympic Committee (IOC) about the inclusion and treatment of intersex women in sports.

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

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 :)