interACT staff, Board, and Youth members pose with sponsoring Senator Scott Wiener and allies from the ACLU and Equality California. (Eler de Grey) California's Legislative Fight to Protect Intersex Children From Nonconsensual Genital Surgeries Pushed to 2020 Senator Wiener and the medical professionals and civil rights organizations supporting SB 201 will bring it back
SB 201 would ensure that people born with variations in their sex characteristics and genitalia are given the opportunity to provide informed consent before any medical treatments that could irreversibly affect puberty, sexual function, or fertility, including reducing a clitoris, creating a vagina, or removing healthy gonadal tissue. California Senator Scott Wiener announces
HISTORY: MADE! Today, interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Equality California, and California State Senator Scott Wiener celebrate the passing of the first legislation in U.S. history to name the harms of non-consensual medical interventions on intersex people. Earlier today the state of California passed SCR-110, a resolution calling on the medical profession to heed international human rights guidelines and
Dear Colleague: intersex voices matter, and it's about time you listen. In 2011, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Dear Colleague Letter that presented guidelines on legal obligations in addressing sexual violence in school and on campuses across our country. While this written request is not exactly the same, our objective is parallel.
interACT is thrilled to see the San Francisco Human Rights Commission publicly support CA Resolution 110 to protect intersex children! Over ten years ago the Commission took a stand for intersex people everywhere by recognizing our basic human right to be free from medically unnecessary surgeries performed without our consent. SCR 110 affirms California’s commitment
interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and AIS-DSD Support Group Joint Statement Regarding Requests to Participate in “Defining Successful Outcomes and Trade-Offs” January 25, 2018 Last month, leadership of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, the nation’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to advancing the human rights of children born with intersex characteristics, and The AIS-DSD
The Center on Halstead, a major Chicago based LGBT center, released a statement today urging the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide intersex kids with same protections as LGBTQ youth! Center CFO Kim Fountain said, “We want to celebrate the doctors who care for our community and our children—not question whether their care is misleading
interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth strongly supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Intersex youth are of every immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and background, and we strive to work in solidarity to protect the rights of all in our diverse community. Rescinding DACA will leave hundred of thousands of young
Human Rights Watch and interACT sent letters to the medical associations, the Pediatric Endocrine Society and the Societies for Pediatric Urology, urging them to use their upcoming international medical conferences to publicly affirm their support to end medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children. Read the press release below.
Many of us here at interACT have been very affected by the horrific events in Charlottesville, Virginia. We are aware of how often instances of racism, anti-semitism, bigotry, and hatred occur each day in this country, and we recognize that we have our own work to do. Witnessing such a public display of white supremacy
