The mask is off. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence” Act does no such thing—it plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” when carried out on minors with intersex variations such as ovotestes. It simultaneously strips lifesaving care from trans adolescents. This is the first piece of legislation to explicitly
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’ 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, “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
For Immediate Release: January 16, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, Legal and Policy Director - [email protected] 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
Today, Congress threatens to strip many intersex students, especially girls and women, of their right to play sports. Like similar statewide bills that seek to restrict sports participation based on vague definitions of "sex", H.R.28 (and S.9, currently still in the Senate) are discriminatory. They exclude transgender girls from playing on teams with other
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
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 11 Press contact: Erika Lorshbough, [email protected], 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 “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
If I was competing in high school or college athletics today, I would have much more to worry about than just being teased for looking different.
