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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' ({{LifeData|birth=1968-05-29|birthplace=New York, {{USSC|NY}}}}) is a Latine American writer, author, producer, and [[human rights]] activist.<ref name="Pham">{{REFnews

Viloria is intersex, non-binary, and gender non-conforming, using they/them pronouns.<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> They are known for their writing and their 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

In 1996, Viloria participated in the first international intersex retreat. They reported that, eager to meet people like themself, instead they "met people who'd been traumatized and physically damaged by cosmetic genital surgeries and hormone treatments they'd been subjected to in infancy and childhood, and it moved [Viloria] to become an intersex activist."<ref name="Intersexion">{{REFweb

}}</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

In 2004, Viloria testified before the San Francisco Human Rights Commission on the need to ban medically unnecessary cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex infants and children.<ref name="Patel">{{REFnews

}}</ref>  They also argued that being raised to define oneself as disordered is psychologically harmful to intersex youth:

In 2012, Viloria spearheaded the first unified, global call for [[human rights]] by and for intersex people, in a letter signed by thirty leading intersex advocacy organizations, to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.<ref>{{REFweb

In 2013, Viloria served as one of three intersex co-organizers of the Third International Intersex Forum in November 2013, in Malta, which led to the creation of the Malta declaration, the most widely agreed upon statement of [[human rights]]' demands by the international intersex advocacy community.<ref>{{REFweb

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.