Intersex Awareness Day: A Demonstration that Inspired a Movement
October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day (IAD), a day now winning attention as education around what intersex is, community needs, and personal stories are gaining more spotlight.
New trans healthcare standards: what should intersex people know?
The newest WPATH standards of care address the unique healthcare considerations and potential medical harms that intersex people face.
Get to Know Erika, the Intersex Lawyer Leading interACT!
interACT has a new Executive Director—and they are a passionate intersex lawyer who absolutely adores community, telling stories, meeting new people and travel. Get to know Erika Lorshbough (they/she) with us as she leads interACT in its advocacy for all intersex people.
Is MRKH Intersex? Ask a Different Question Instead
Are people with MRKH—with mostly typical sex anatomy but born without a uterus and/or parts of the vagina—considered intersex? To get anywhere, we need to be asking completely different questions. By Maddie Rose As a teen newly navigating dating and sexuality, I received news that turned my world upside-down: a diagnosis of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser
What Hanne Gaby Odeile Means For Intersex People – Like Me
In addition to being an Intersex activist and political campaigns consultant, Susannah Temko who lives in London is also a member of interACT Youth. Susannah wrote this reflection for Huffington Post UK on fashion model Hanne Gaby Odeile’s recent disclosure has meant to her. PHOTO CREDIT: VAN TINE DENNIS/ABACA USA
DON’T leave out the ‘I’ – the obligations of being inclusive….
interACT Board Member Mani Mitchell's posted this on facebook and we absolutely had to share it. Thank you, Mani, for sharing your experiences and providing a unique perspective that we hope will open minds and spread awareness. Words from the road: Bangkok. Todays 'Ted Talk': DON’T leave out the ‘I’ – the obligations of being
Support and Advocacy – Reflections on the AIS-DSD SG Conference
Last week in Cincinnati, Ohio I attended my seventh Androgen Insensitivity – Differences of Sex Development Support Group (AIS-DSD SG) conference and am still basking in the “orchid love.” There is nothing quite like it. About eight years ago I discovered the support group and attended my first conference in Dallas. Mind blown . Not
“I Really Have to Go”
“Hold on honey,” I imagine myself saying to one of my daughters as I veer from a stream of hurried travelers at the crowded Dallas airport and head toward a desperately needed women’s restroom after a long flight from Boston. “Stay here with daddy for a few minutes while mommy uses the restroom, be right
AIC on Huff Post Live with host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Watch AIC's April 21st, all star panel on Huff Post Live including Board Members Sean Saifa and Dr. Arlene Baratz and staff Pidgeon Pagonis and Anne Tamar-Mattis with fantastic host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. If you have not yet seen these amazing folks in actions, now's your chance--it will be the best 20 minutes of your day!
Public Statement by the Third International Intersex Forum
Between the 29th of November and 1 December 2013, the Third International Intersex Forum, supported by ILGA and ILGA-Europe, took place in Valletta, Malta. This event brought together 34 activists representing 30 intersex organisations from all continents, including AIC Board of Directors Co-chair Saifa Wall, and our Youth Leadership Coordinator Pidgeon Pagonis. Mani Mitchell who