7. VIMÖ #genderEqualityOrganization #WTMVIE Gender Equality Over Coffee

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VIMÖ (Verein Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen Österreich) is the only intersex led human rights based intersex organisation in Austria. VIMÖ was founded by Alex Jürgen and Tobias Humer in 2014. VIMÖ work’s for political and social change to improve the situation of intersex people in Austria. For that reason VIMÖ is part of the Plattform Intersex Österreich, a networking platform consisting of paedagogic, therapeutic, journalistic and legal experts.With the help and information center VARGES they offer peer support for intersex people and their families as well as educational trainings for professionals and organisations.
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ViMÖ nGO website: https://vimoe.at/spenden/ Allies: https://www.varges.at/ Allies: https://oiieurope.org/ Allies: https://www.okto.tv/de/tv/ Intersex conference: https://intersex-conference.at/ Movie recommendation: No box for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ0mW1OQaK4 Short film recommendation: Ponyboi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcqqaI-GJ1cTranscriptTIMEA:Hey Ramón!
RAMÓN:Hey Timea!
TIMEA:Let’s talk gender equality.
RAMÓN:I love the idea. Gimme a second. I just got to grab my coffee. I hope you’ve got yours too.
TIMEA:Yeah, right here.
RAMÓN: Welcome back everybody to another episode of gender equality over coffee. If you missed the last episode, we were joined by Luan who is here once again today, for which we are so grateful. And today we’re going to go into more detail on the organization that helps organize, which is VIMÖ. The, and I want to try to get this right. So please allow me Verein Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen Österreich . How would I do.
LUAN: Perfect.
RAMÓN: Wow. First try to I’m very happy. Thank you. Yes, Luan, please. Could you yeah, give us, give us the history of, of VIMÖ. Did you, did you found it? Stuff like this? I’d love to hear all about it.
LUAN: Yeah, so VIMÖ is the only intersex led organization in Austria. And it’s based in Linz. It always does. And in Vienna VIMÖ was founded in 2014 by Tobias Humer and Alex Jürgen. They were the first intersex, publicly open intersex people in Austria. And they founded this organization and the vision is to stop nonconsensual, intersex, surgeries, and treatments, and to give intersex people Like a discrimination free life and in, in Austria. Yeah. What we are doing. So we do many different kinds of work. So basically from community work, We we make events. We also had already, I think three intersex conference is the first one was in Salzburg and the second and the third one was in Vienna in, in, in Rathaus.To get with the must anti-discrimination office of the city of Vienna. We also have, of course just intersex only events. Where we meet where we can talk right now, of course, every single online, but it’s very important also to go further the step in the time of the pandemic, because intersex people are most of intersex people. They’ve very isolated. So it’s really important to meet with them, even though it’s online. Of course, we also do a lot of peer counseling. So we have a group we like have peer counselors where people can come and just talk with us and to find ways for them, how to cope with the situation with the history. with, The part of they found out they are intersex and they found out what happened to them when they were a child, but also of course topics of how can I change my gender marker and things like we do a lot of education. We were in schools in universities. We also work To get of his companies, how they can be more open like also on the part of language what is important, how they should speak and you know, Or like, you know, names of chosen names or that like everybody should put their pronouns and a signature of email address or things like that.Of course we are doing a lot of political work. We. We try to work together with with the green party, with the social Democrats with Neos to