interACT News and Releases

Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.

U.S. House moves to criminalize consensual gender-affirming care, endorse nonconsensual intersex surgeries

June 10th, 2025|

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

Honoring Dr. Milton Diamond: Awardee of the Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award

May 29th, 2025|

Dr. Milton "Mickey" Diamond is the newest recipient of the Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award for Intersex Allyship, remembering him as a champion for the bodily autonomy of intersex children. interACT is honored to present the 2024 Anne Tamar-Mattis Award for Intersex Allyship posthumously to Dr. Milton “Mickey” Diamond. Dr. Diamond,

Celebrating Justin Tsang: Recipient of the Kimberly Zieselman Youth Award

May 28th, 2025|

Justin Tsang is this past year’s recipient of the Kimberly Zieselman Award, recognizing his exemplary work in the intersex community.  Justin Tsang, Intersex and Disability Justice Advocate Justin Tsang (he/they) is an advocate for intersex rights and a dedicated community member who has made significant contributions to the intersex

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 - sfraser@interactadvocates.org 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, erika@interactadvocates.org, 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

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