interACT staff Maddie interviews Ryanna, a Youth Advocate living with an intersex variation called Kallmann Syndrome. Most people with Kallmann Syndrome have a late puberty or one that goes differently than expected. Kallmann Syndrome is much rarer in people with XX chromosomes, making Ryanna 1 in 250,000! She has a beautiful life as an
Youth Advocate Tanis has always loved to read. When he never saw a body like his in any stack of books, he set out to discover why. My body is a story written in multiple languages, but I was only taught how to read one of them. I have
This Trans Day of Visibility, meet intersex people who are also transgender. Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV). Each year on March 31, we observe TDOV to celebrate the lives of transgender people. The day also brings attention to the discrimination, misunderstanding and threats to safety that transgender people still
Rainii is an autistic intersex person who likes to make art and talk about intersex and disability awareness. Rainii does their best to spread positivity and joy in their work and is excited to share with others! I first learned I was intersex from a doctor. Well, more like multiple
By Apollo Robert International Men's Day has been celebrated on November 19th for 25 years, and its purpose is to highlight the issues impacting men such as promoting positive role models, health, well-being, and healthy gender relations. Every year, there is a specific theme highlighted for particular emphasis. For 2024, one of several
At the first ever public intersex rights demonstration in 1996, intersex activists Max Beck and Morgan Holmes were joined by their allies outside the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference in Boston to demand an end to nonconsensual, non-emergent surgeries on intersex children. This 1996 protest, along with the then-emerging intersex rights movement, represented
Courtney Felle (they/them) is a 2024 interACT Youth Cohort Member and a current PhD Student in Disability Studies and Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at the Ohio State University. They are passionate about disability theory, creative writing, fiber arts, and bad reality TV—and constantly angry about diagnostic injustice. Find them on Instagram via @courtneyfelle.
Apollo grew up with a variation in sex traits typically associated with women — MRKH — but knew he was a man. At times, his intersex variation was a relief. At others, being one of the only men with MRKH was profoundly isolating. But MRKH is a part of him, and he loves it.
Intersex Pride Parade in London, from Dani Coyle Emma Nutt (she/her) is an interACT youth cohort member living with xx/xy intersex chimerism. She is interested in linguistics and biology, taking a personal interest in entomology more specifically. In her spare time she enjoys making art and having fun by messing around with vocaloids.
The “worst anti-trans bill in the nation” is not only that. Emory Hufbauer is a University of Kentucky graduate and a former high school teacher from Louisville, Kentucky. They work as a research programmer at a biology lab, and their pronouns are they/them. Last year my state, like many in the
