Official Website of VIMÖ / OII Austria
Founded in 2014, VIMÖ is the Austrian national association of intersex people. We are a member of the Organisation Intersex International (OII) and their branch OII Europe.
We advocate for political and social change to improve the situation of intersex people in Austria. To achieve our goals, we are in contact with politicians, health care workers and other stakeholders on both national and international levels, such as the Ombud for Equal Treatment in Austria and ILGA Europe. In the past, we were part of an expert’s group initiated by the ministry of health to provide guidelines for health care workers to improve treatment of persons with variations of sex characteristics and also spoke in front of UN treaty bodies in behalf of intersex persons in Austria.
For our community we offer possibilities to share their experiences in meetings both in reality and online. Our branch association in Vienna (founded in 2018) offers meetings in person on a regular basis. Find out more about those meetings in our calendar! If you want to visit our office in Vienna please use these directions.
We are funded, for instance, by the ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection and ÖKUSS (Austrian competence and service center for self-help). If you want to know more about our current projects, please have a closer look on our website.
We want intersex to be no longer taboo and pathologized – we work for an inter*inclusive world.
Feel free to contact us!
Our counseling and education project “Var.Ges”:
In 2019 we founded Var.Ges to improve the counseling situation for persons with variations of sex characteristics in Austria. We offer peer-counseling for persons with variations of sex characteristic (vsc) and for parents of children with vsc in our spaces in Vienna and Linz as well as via video tools or telephone. In case you seek counseling for yourself or a family member, please contact us via:
In addition to counseling, Var.Ges also offers workshops, lectures and consulting for various clients. While our main language is German, we also do trainings in English from time to time.
If you are looking for information about intersex in english or other languages, please visit the resources section on the website of OII Europe or their project Intervisibility (more than 20 languages available)
If you want to learn more about our activities, please read our annual reports:
Unfortunately, the annual reports before 2022 are only available in german. If you want to have a look please continue reading at Über Uns.
If you want to support our work, please feel free to donate!
This is possible both via paypal (please note that paypal charges a fee of 0,35€ + 3,4% of the donation) and via bank transfer:
VIMÖ
IBAN: AT02 3473 2000 0019 4258
BIC: RZOOAT2L732
VIMÖ Zweigverein Wien
IBAN: AT633200000012709150
BIC: RLNWATWWXXX
