Racist Cyberstalking

Curtis E. Hinkle, founder of OII, the Organisation Intersex International, filed charges against Bodies Like Ours, an intersex support group in the United States. He filed the charges in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Sunday, April 2, 2006 after experiencing repeated trans-bashing. Different members were involved in derogatory statements about Curtis being trans. However, the main reason for Curtis going to the police was because of what he alleged to be racist cyberstalking.

A member of the group who posts to Bodies Like Ours hurled racist epithets at Curtis after it was revealed that Curtis family was biracial. This same poster published maps to Curtis’ house on the website of Bodies Like Ours. Curtis contacted the moderators and made it clear that this was very disturbing to him and his incapacitated wife. The harassment continued and finally the anonymous poster made comparisons between the organization that Curtis founded and the Ku Klux Klan. She wrote: “Well I will tell you that the KKK has an equally impressive list of activities, but that does not make them right either.”

Curtis’ family has been stalked before by racists and they were very concerned about this because they had no way of knowing who this person was or where they were located. Bodies Like Ours did not reveal the name of the anonymous group member to Curtis.

Curtis and his family have been reassured by the events which have ensued after the police report and are no longer fearful. Curtis says that the last place he expected such behavior was in an intersex support group.