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{{WikipediaQuote |URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hida_Viloria |title=Hida Viloria}}
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1968-05-29|birthplace=New York, {{USSC|NY}}}}) is a Latine Latin American writer, author, producer, and [[human rights]] activist.<ref name="Pham">{{REFnews
|last=Pham
|first=Larissa
|accessdate=2021-01-07}}</ref>
Viloria is [[intersex]], non-binary, and gender non-conforming, using they/them pronouns.<ref>{{REFweb
|title=About – Hida Viloria
|url=https://hidaviloria.com/about/
|accessdate=2020-12-11
}}</ref> They are It is known for their its writing and their its [[intersex]] and non-binary [[human rights]] activism and as one of the first people to come out in national and international media as a nonbinary [[intersex]] person.<ref name="Bibliography">{{REFweb
|title=Hida Viloria Bibliography
|url=http://hidaviloria.com/wp-content/uploads/Bibliography-Hida-Viloria.pdf
== Opposing nonconsensual medically-unnecessary surgeries ==
In 1996, Viloria participated in the first international [[intersex]] retreat. They It reported that, eager to meet people like themselfitself, instead they it "met people who'd been traumatized and physically damaged by cosmetic genital surgeries and hormone treatments theyit'd been subjected to in infancy and childhood, and it moved [Viloria] to become an [[intersex ]] activist."<ref name="Intersexion">{{REFweb
|title=Intersexion
|url=http://www.intersexionfilm.com
|accessdate=2019-02-28
|publisher=[[ISNA]]
}}</ref> reaching audiences of over one hundred million via appearances in various documentaries about [[intersex ]] people, including the first ''Hermaphrodites Speak!'', and most notably on ABC's ''20/20'',<ref name="Controversy">{{REFnews
|title=Controversy Over Operating to Change Ambiguous Genitalia
|url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123917&page=1
In 2016, Viloria became a board member of [[Genital Autonomy America]] (GA America), an advocacy organization working with groups worldwide who are seeking to end non-therapeutic genital cutting of all female, male, and [[intersex]] infants and children.
{{SEEALSO}}* [[United States of America]]
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwebsite|http://hidaviloria.com}}
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