interACT News and Releases

Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.

World Athletics’ forced “sex verification” violates the privacy of all women

March 26th, 2025|

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

HHS Ignores Biology to Comply with Trump’s Executive Order

February 19th, 2025|

The new guidance from HHS, complying with Trump’s Executive Order redefining sex, attempts to push an unscientific agenda rather than reflect any biological reality. It aims instead to erase the existence of transgender and intersex people. The Trump administration has up until now ignored the nearly 2% of the population with intersex variations, because

Trump’s Executive Order Ignores Science to Push Discriminatory Agenda

January 21st, 2025|

Trump’s Executive Order, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” neither defends women nor states any “biological truth.” Instead, it attempts to erase the existence of transgender and intersex people in order to further the administration’s own ideological agenda, which is grounded not in science but rather

HHS supports intersex bodily autonomy in first-ever health equity report

January 16th, 2025|

For Immediate Release: January 16, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, Legal and Policy Director - [email protected] Today, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a groundbreaking report on intersex health, linking the ongoing practice of non-consensual surgery on intersex infants to harmful outcomes and health disparities. It names the denial

interACT Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Opposing Healthcare Ban that Endorses Invasive Medical Interventions on Intersex Children

September 11th, 2024|

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 11 Press contact: Erika Lorshbough, [email protected], 707-793-1190 x1 PDF available here. interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case U.S.A. v. Skrmetti. This is a case brought by the U.S. government against the state of Tennessee, challenging its statutory ban on medically necessary gender-affirming

interACT Statement: All women have the right to participate in Olympic competition

August 1st, 2024|

From interACT Executive Director Erika Lorshbough: We stand for the right of all women to participate in athletics, including those born with variations in their sex traits such as chromosomal or hormonal variations. It is disappointing to see hate in response to competition taking place at the Olympics, which should be a joyous celebration

Federal Healthcare Rule Cements Sex Discrimination Protections to Include Intersex Patients

April 26th, 2024|

For Immediate Release. PDF available here. Press contact: Maddie Moran, Director of Communications. [email protected]  The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its final rule on the nondiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act, making clear that discrimination against intersex people within federally funded health programs is prohibited. Under the rule, sex discrimination

U.N. Human Rights Council Passes Landmark Resolution to Protect Intersex Rights

April 4th, 2024|

Today the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to adopt its first-ever resolution denouncing “discrimination, violence, and harmful practices” that violate the human rights of intersex people. The resolution specifically expresses the Council’s “grave concern” about the practice of “medically unnecessary or deferrable interventions…with respect to sex characteristics, performed without the full, free and

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