Law & Policy Program

U.S. House moves to criminalize consensual gender-affirming care, endorse nonconsensual intersex surgeries

June 10th, 2025|

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

No care, just control – the intersex mutilation exceptions in gender-affirming care bans

May 15th, 2025|

More than half of states now have laws in place that bar access to gender-affirming care—the consensual, necessary healthcare that allows transgender teens and young adults to feel at home in their bodies. All of these bans contain a so-called “intersex exception”—usually named by the pathologizing term “medically verifiable disorder of sex development” in

World Athletics’ forced “sex verification” violates the privacy of all women

March 26th, 2025|

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

Trump’s Executive Order Ignores Science to Push Discriminatory Agenda

January 21st, 2025|

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

HHS supports intersex bodily autonomy in first-ever health equity report

January 16th, 2025|

For Immediate Release: January 16, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, Legal and Policy Director - sfraser@interactadvocates.org Today, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a groundbreaking report on intersex health, linking the ongoing practice of non-consensual surgery on intersex infants to harmful outcomes and health disparities. It names the denial

Intersex student athletes respond to new sports ban in Congress

January 10th, 2025|

Intersex students deserve the right to play sports with their peers—like any other student. They deserve the fun, confidence, and friendship that school sports can provide. Two newly-introduced bills in Congress that would restrict sports access, H.R.28 and S.9, are questioning those rights. If the bills become law, some intersex students may lose access

interACT Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Opposing Healthcare Ban that Endorses Invasive Medical Interventions on Intersex Children

September 11th, 2024|

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 11 Press contact: Erika Lorshbough, erika@interactadvocates.org, 707-793-1190 x1 PDF available here. interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case U.S.A. v. Skrmetti. This is a case brought by the U.S. government against the state of Tennessee, challenging its statutory ban on medically necessary gender-affirming

The Censors and my Intersex Body

January 9th, 2024|

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

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