interACT News and Releases

Press releases, statements, and organizational updates from interACT.

Public Statement by the Third International Intersex Forum

December 12th, 2013|

Between the 29th of November and 1 December 2013, the Third International Intersex Forum, supported by ILGA and ILGA-Europe, took place in Valletta, Malta. This event brought together 34 activists representing 30 intersex organisations from all continents, including AIC Board of Directors Co-chair Saifa Wall, and our Youth Leadership Coordinator Pidgeon Pagonis. Mani Mitchell who

Joint Statement from Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome – Disorders of Sex Development Support Group (AIS-DSDSG) and Advocates for Informed Choice (AIC) Respond to Germany’s New Third Gender Law

November 25th, 2013|

Visibility, challenges and hope for DSD and Intersex affected communities worldwide. United States, November 21, 2013: The new German law allowing families whose babies’ sex is unclear because of genital difference to defer choosing a binary option on the birth certificate has been the subject of much criticism. While we share some concerns, we believe

Endocrinologists Respond to UN Statement on Genital-Normalizing Surgery

November 11th, 2013|

AIC recently received a copy of a letter written by an international group of pediatric endocrine societies in response to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture’s statement calling for an end to genital-normalizing surgeries without the consent of the affected person.  The letter thanks the United Nations for bringing attention to this issue, while

Celebration of Community Empowerment this Intersex Awareness Day by Anne Tamar Mattis

October 25th, 2013|

Saturday October 26, 2013 is International Intersex Awareness Day (IAD).  This day marks the anniversary of the October 26, 1996 demonstration where activists and allies held a public demonstration demanding visibility and justice in Boston, where the American Academy of Pediatrics held its annual conference.   IAD has become an international day of grass-roots action

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Invites Intersex to the Table!

June 27th, 2013|

Today, AIC was invited to participate in an National Institute of Health (NIH) Listening Session.  According to NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, these Listening Session are “part of our efforts to advance the health of LGBTI individuals, we will seek community input over the next year (including listening sessions and a public Request For Information),

David Reimer, Honor and Remember Him

May 3rd, 2013|

May 5th commemorates the tragic death in 2004, of David Reimer.  For those familiar with his story, his courage in speaking out in spite of the anguish and abuse he suffered seems an enormous accomplishment.  Indeed, his life, though too short, and his work, contributed tremendously to the struggles for the human and civil rights

The Pursuit of Happiness in Our Original Beautiful Bodies: Pidgeon Pagonis’ Recent Testimony before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

April 8th, 2013|

The Ides of March (March 15th) marks a day of ancient betrayal, the assassination of Cesar, in the popular imagination of the West. Intersex youth, adults, and their communities are no strangers to such feelings. For the thousands of intersex children and adult survivors who have endured non-consensual genital surgeries, the medical institutions set-up to

In Defense of Henry Enuta

March 29th, 2013|

By Sean Saifa Wall, Co-Chair, Advocates for Informed Choice and Dr. Susana Morris, member of the Crunk Feminist Collective   On March 26th, 2013 in Sapele, the Delta State of Nigeria, Pastor Henry Enuta was physically stripped and humiliated in public because he is an intersex person.  According to news reports, he was almost killed

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