Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.
By Kimberly Zieselman, interACT Executive Director November 8 marks International Intersex Day of Solidarity -- and this year in the United States, more allies are standing with us than ever before. The number of human rights organizations, medical associations, and LGBTQ groups declaring their support for the bodily autonomy of intersex people is only going
The Center on Halstead, a major Chicago based LGBT center, released a statement today urging the American Academy of Pediatrics to provide intersex kids with same protections as LGBTQ youth! Center CFO Kim Fountain said, “We want to celebrate the doctors who care for our community and our children—not question whether their care is
From Anne Tamar-Mattis, interACT Founder and Legal Director To all of my friends, colleagues, and fellow activists, I have a bittersweet announcement to make. As of September 15, I am moving on from my position as Legal Director of interACT. It has been an honor and privilege to be able to work in service to this
interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth strongly supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Intersex youth are of every immigration status, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and background, and we strive to work in solidarity to protect the rights of all in our diverse community. Rescinding DACA will leave hundred of thousands of young
Human Rights Watch and interACT sent letters to the medical associations, the Pediatric Endocrine Society and the Societies for Pediatric Urology, urging them to use their upcoming international medical conferences to publicly affirm their support to end medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children. Read the press release below.
Many of us here at interACT have been very affected by the horrific events in Charlottesville, Virginia. We are aware of how often instances of racism, anti-semitism, bigotry, and hatred occur each day in this country, and we recognize that we have our own work to do. Witnessing such a public display of white supremacy
Dear Friends and Fellow Advocates: I spent this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, representing interACT at the I-DSD conference. This is an international conference for medical professionals and researchers who work with intersex patients, although they also allow patient advocates to attend. My main purpose in going was to support my spouse, Dr. Suegee Tamar-Mattis,
Photo interACT Youth Advocate Irene took many years ago while waiting in the hallway for her doctors. interACT supporter Elizabeth Reis is doing important work to raise awareness of the needs of intersex people in hospitals. “What Hospitalists Should Know About Intersex Adults,” published in the Summer 2016 issue of Perspectives in Biology
On June 5, 2017 interACT joined 98 other organizations in support of a letter sent by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, expressing our profound concern that the civil and human rights of all Americans are being drastically undermined by the Trump administration’s proposed deep cuts to key civil rights office budgets, the
Today marks the beginning of the annual meeting of pediatric urologists, a medical speciality often tasked with caring for the health and well being of infants born with intersex traits. In recognition of the deeply harmful impact of medically unnecessary surgical interventions that continue to this day, despite over twenty years of advocacy by intersex
