Rest in power, Emi Koyama. Emi was an intersex and transgender activist who worked for the Intersex Society of North America, co-founded Intersex Awareness Day, and is known for her work in the third-wave feminist and transfeminist movements. Our founder, Anne Tamar-Mattis, reflected on Emi's legacy. "Emi Koyama had an enormous impact on the
Not all participants pictured; photos are for fun and not a requirement We're so back! interACT hosted its first-ever youth healing and wellness retreat in August 2024, and we're returning to California for 2026. Northern California has a rich history as the site of several early U.S. intersex groups and gatherings. interACT
The Supreme Court has struck down a Colorado law that protected youth from conversion therapy – harmful efforts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Intersex youth are disproportionately vulnerable to conversion therapy practices. Of LGBTQ+ youth who are intersex, research by the Trevor Project found that 13% had been subjected to
Press: media@interactadvocates.org March 26, 2026 - Today’s newly released policy by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) discriminates against transgender and intersex women with Olympic dreams through mandated sex testing that invades the privacy and dignity of all women athletes. This policy change comes under pressure from the Trump Administration in advance of the next
For Immediate Release: December 18, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, sfraser@interactadvocates.org The US House of Representatives has passed H.R. 3492, a dangerous bill introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene to criminalize gender-affirming care while making an exception for nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children. H.R. 3492 is the most extreme attack on gender-affirming care to
Today the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in US v. Skrmetti, the case challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for youth. The ban, along with every similar statewide ban, contains a hypocritical exception for intersex genital mutilation (IGM) —non-consensual surgeries imposed upon intersex infants and young children. The Court, in
For Immediate Release: June 10, 2025 Press contacts: A. Lazarus Orr, press@transequality.org Sylvan Fraser Anthony, sfraser@interactadvocates.org PDF Available Here. Today, H.R. 3492, a Congressional bill criminalizing gender-affirming care while endorsing intersex genital mutilation, was approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation would restrict lifesaving care for many trans adolescents by wrongly categorizing
The mask is off. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence” Act does no such thing—it plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” when carried out on minors with intersex variations such as ovotestes. It simultaneously strips lifesaving care from trans adolescents. This is the first piece of legislation to explicitly
Not all participants pictured; photos are for fun and not a requirement We're so back! interACT hosted its first-ever youth healing and wellness retreat in August 2024, and we're returning to California for 2025. Northern California has a rich history as the site of several early U.S. intersex groups and gatherings. interACT
World Athletics’ approach to “sex verification” through compulsory sex testing discriminatorily targets women, violating universal principles of equal access to sport. When women are subjected to invasive genetic testing, they are forced to give up privacy about their personal genetic information while governing bodies dictate if they are “woman enough” to play women’s
