Mauro Cabral Grinspan is an Argentinian advocate, researcher, and writer who lives in Brussels, Belgium. He runs our international intersex depathologisation project. Following 15 years of involvement with diverse initiatives at the national, regional, and international level, Mauro co-founded GATE (Global Action for Trans Equality) in 2009.
He served as its Co-Director until 2017, and as its Executive Director until the beginning of 2022. In that capacity, he coordinated international initiatives on trans and intersex depathologisation at the World Health Organization. In 2022 and 2023, Mauro served as Senior Officer for Gender Justice and Equity at the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP), and he’s currently collaborating with GPP as a Research Consultant. Mauro participated in the elaboration of the Yogyakarta Principles in 2006 and the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 in 2017, and he is a signatory of both.
He has also participated in the elaboration and revision of several international reports, including WHO’s “Sexual health, human rights, and the law”. Mauro serves as an Editorial Team member at Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, and as International Advisory Board member at the LGBT Program at Human Rights Watch. He also chairs the Advisory Board at the INIA (Intersex – New Interdisciplinary Approaches) Project. At the national level, Mauro contributed to the drafting and passing of the Argentine Gender Identity Law and co-authored the Argentine Bill on the Comprehensive Protection on Sex Characteristics.
He coordinates Justicia Intersex, an initiative focused on intersex people’s access to truth and reparations. Mauro studied history at the National University of Córdoba and completed postgraduate studies in philosophy and gender studies. He has written, translated, and edited extensively on trans, intersex topics and other bodily diversity issues; every year, he teaches open seminars on intersex issues. He is an intersex and trans man, a survivor of psycho-medical abuse, and a passionate cook, gardener, and embroiderer.
