Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.
Today the U.S. House voted to narrow Title IX protections, redefining sex to exclude transgender & intersex girls from participation in sports.
We call on representatives to oppose H.R. 734, which would subject children and young adults with innate variations in their sex characteristics to discrimination.
Today, the Department of Education released its long-awaited proposed regulation on sex-based eligibility in school athletics.
The American Bar Association has adopted a resolution in support of intersex bodily autonomy this past Monday.
Dr. Arlene Baratz, in her roles as a mother of two intersex adults, physician, advocate, and provider of peer support, exemplifies outstanding intersex allyship and advocacy deserving of the Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award.
For the first time, an appeals court upheld a discriminatory anti-trans bathroom policy. Intersex people were a critical part of the dissent.
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released its proposed rule on the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections, making clear that discrimination against intersex people within federally funded health programs is prohibited.
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.
Yesterday, in a first-of-its-kind step toward intersex visibility and justice, U.S. President Biden convened a White House Roundtable to center the needs of intersex Americans, the nearly 2% of the population born with variations in their physical sex characteristics, who continue to suffer brutalizing and traumatic surgeries performed without their consent in hospitals across the
interACT obtained the exact language of the new intersex-affirming policy of NYC Health and Hospitals. As a result of interACT's advocacy and that of so many intersex activists, the largest public health care system in the United States (covering over 70 facilities across NYC!) will now prohibit surgeries on intersex youth!!! "All medically unnecessary surgery
