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.
We call on representatives to oppose H.R. 734, which would subject children and young adults with innate variations in their sex characteristics to discrimination.
Today, the Department of Education released its long-awaited proposed regulation on sex-based eligibility in school athletics.
The American Bar Association has adopted a resolution in support of intersex bodily autonomy this past Monday.
The United States has been slow to call for an end to the surgeries on intersex youth. But change is in the air.
