Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.
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
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
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
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,
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’ 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
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, “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
