Kitty Anderson

Kitty Anderson is an Icelandic intersex activist. She is a co-chair of European intersex organization OII Europe, a co-founder of Intersex Iceland, and chairman of the board of the Icelandic Human Rights Centre. She has been described as a "leading voice of the intersex movement in Europe." Anderson has reported that her "mother was told to lie" to her until she was aged 13.

Activism

Anderson co-founded Intersex Iceland in 2014, and currently serves as its chairperson. of OII Europe and chairperson of the board of the Icelandic Human Rights Centre. In an interview with NIKK, Anderson has stated that "surgeries will continue until we get a law that prohibits them".

Anderson has presented to the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics, and speaks at a range of conferences, media, and human rights institutions across Scandinavia and Europe.

In 2015, Anderson campaigned to change terminology in the biology curriculum in Icelandic schools, and dictionaries, after finding out that the word intersex was being translated into Icelandic as "freak". The publisher of the school text later apologized.