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Hello my name is Kennedy Walker. I am 18 years old, I attend the prestigious Xavier University of Louisiana. I am a freshman and my major is Bio-PreMed.

The article I have chose is Ruth Baldacchino. Ruth Baldacchino is an LGBT, transgender and intersex activist. This article is about intersex activist. Originally this was not the article that I wanted to do, but this is the article that I will be contributing to. I will be adding insight on intersex situations, ones that are global and ones that are non global. I will talk about how intersex situations has effected peoples everyday lives and how the world has become more aware of what is going on with the LGBT community.

This relates to Human Rights because no matter what you believe in or who you are attracted to, everyone is a citizen at the end of the day. If you are a law biding citizen then you should have equal rights just as everyone else does. Just because you like the same gender does not mean that you should be punished for it. People in the LGBT community are punished for this everyday. Same sex marriage has just became legal in all 50 states just three years ago. In 2015 the supreme court finalized the decision. Just to think up until three years ago you couldn't get married in your hometown because it wasn't legal.

Ruth Baldacchino Intersex Activism
Baldacchino has previously served on the boards of the Malta Gay Rights Movement, IGLYO and ILGA-Europe and also serves as program officer for the first intersex human rights fund. Baldacchino is a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta. From late 2014, Baldacchino has served as co-secretary general of ILGA. From mid-2015 Baldacchino serves as program officer for the first intersex human rights fund, at Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

Prior to joining Astraea, Baldacchino worked at the Ministry for Civil Liberties in Malta on human rights and social integration, participating in the process of developing and passing a groundbreaking Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act.

Baldacchino has a non-binary gender identity, and describes the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act as providing "freedom to an individual to develop, establish and express their gender, rather than having the State or the medical professionals deciding that. In other words, ... to be allowed to determine what identity fits ... best and how ... to embody that identity."

Baldacchino has also closely engaged with intersex activists, particularly through the co-facilitation and coordination of ILGA’s International Intersex Forums.

Baldacchino contributed to a 2015 national education policy on Trans, Gender Variant and Intersex Students in Schools.

Outline
In the entry it is already mentioned what some of Ruth Baldacchino's achievements are and what she has worked on as an activist for the intersex and LGBT community. I will be adding activist work that Ruth Baldacchino was involved in that was not recognized in the wikipedia article already. I will also be adding what the effects of Baldacchino's work has done for other people. The sources that I will be using are as follows. .

Draft
The article that I will be contributing to is Ruth Baldacchino. Ruth Baldacchino is an Intersex Activist. The work that Ruth Baldacchino has done, has inspired people to be more comfortable with their identity.

Baldacchino has helped get started a fund that millions of people can relate to, and that helps a million people who are struggling with their identity.

This topic relates to human rights because, when one finds out that an individual identifies themselves as something other than what they are viewed as they are automatically judged. People of the LGBT community receive so much hate because of who they decide to leave or identify themselves as. It is one's humanitarian right to love who they choose and how they decide to portray themselves as. As this being ones human right, it shouldn't matter to others how one chooses to identify or what sex they prefer.

= Second Draft = The article that I will be contributing to is Ruth Baldacchino. Ruth Baldacchino is an Intersex Activist. The work that Ruth Baldacchino has done, has inspired people to be more comfortable with their identity.

Baldacchino has helped get started a fund that millions of people can relate to, and that helps many people who are struggling with their identity.

This topic relates to human rights because, when one finds out that an individual identifies themselves as something other than what they are viewed as they are automatically judged. Ruth Baldacchino has worked to create greater human rights by being apart of different organizations such as the Malta Gay Rights Movement and working on Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act. People of the LGBT community receive so much hate because of who they decide to leave or identify themselves as. It is one's humanitarian right to love who they choose and how they decide to portray themselves as. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 2 in the first sentence it states "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." As this being ones human right, it shouldn't matter to others how one chooses to identify or what sex they prefer.