One in six intersex people was physically assaulted in the year 2022, an EU agency report said. Intersex people are the only LGBTIQ group that has not experienced a drop in discrimination since an earlier survey in 2019.DWBy Hauwau Samaila Mohammed with AFPSeptember 17, 2025Intersex people in Europe face increasing levels of discrimination and harassment, according to a report released Wednesday by the EU Rights Agency (FRA).The agency said it found the lack of progress alarming as disinformation campaigns online specifically target intersex people. The report includes an online survey of 1,920 intersex people in 30 EU and Western Balkan countries in 2023."Intersex people in the EU experience alarming levels of exclusion, discrimination and violence," FRA Director Sirpa Rautio said, calling for "an urgent response."
Around the globe right-wing conservatives hate people that are different!
Increase in violence since 2019 is linked to online campaigns seeking to sow disinformation and fuel hatredThe GuardianBy Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondentThu 18 Sep 2025Europeans who do not fit the typical definition of male or female are grappling with an “alarming” rise in violence, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as concerted campaigns seek to sow disinformation and fuel hatred towards them.The findings from the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights, published on Tuesday, were based on responses from 1,920 people in 30 countries across Europe. All of them identified as intersex, an umbrella term referring to those with innate variations of sex characteristics and which can also include people who identify as trans, non-binary and gender diverse.It found that since 2019, the rates of violence and harassment against intersex people have sharply increased – particularly among those who identify as trans, non-binary and gender diverse – far outpacing the increases reported by others in the LGBTQ+ community.
I want to point out that many in the intersex community do not think themselves as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Vienna-based agency linked the rise to a wider climate of “increasing or persisting intolerance and bigotry, as well as intense online hatred campaigns” that had “instrumentalised” the LGBT+ community.“Disinformation campaigns fomenting intolerance and prejudice are often waged by foreign and domestic actors acting to undermine European and western democracies and core values, such as dignity, equality and diversity,” the agency noted.The result was a “weaponising” of the fact that many people know little about those who identify as intersex, trans, non-binary and gender diverse, allowing these campaigns to spread disinformation and “fuel hatred and violence against them”, it said.
Sound familiar? It should be because "foreign and domestic actors" is the right-wing American organizations!
The report echoes organisations across Europe, who have long warned of politicians using parliament, political rallies and media interviews to fuel anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and normalise discrimination across the continent.
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