News and Releases
interACT Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Opposing Healthcare Ban that Endorses Invasive Medical Interventions on Intersex Children
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 11 Press contact: Erika Lorshbough,
Call for Participants: Summer 2024 Intersex Youth Retreat
Northern California has a rich history as the
Federal Healthcare Rule Cements Sex Discrimination Protections to Include Intersex Patients
For Immediate Release. PDF available here. Press contact: Maddie Moran, Director
U.N. Human Rights Council Passes Landmark Resolution to Protect Intersex Rights
Today the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to
Recognizing Julie Greenberg, a legal pioneer of intersex civil rights
The 2023 Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award for Intersex Allyship
Federal resolution historically recognizes Intersex Awareness Day
For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 26. Download PDF here.
Press Releases
- 10/26/2023: Federal resolution historically recognizes Intersex Awareness Day
- 4/20/2023: U.S. House moves to bar transgender and intersex girls and women from educational sports programs
- 07/25/2022: Federal Protections for Intersex Patients Clarified in Proposed Healthcare Rule
- 06/16/2022: President Biden Aims to Advance Health Equity for Intersex People in Recent Executive Order on LGBTQI Equality
- 03/09/2022: interACT Joined 190 Organizations in a Call for LGBTQI+ Data Collection – NASEM Report
- 10/27/2021: Unprecedented Engagement on Intersex Issues by Biden Administration
- 06/24/2021: Biden Administration Materials Clarify that Title IX Protects Intersex Students
- 04/22/2021: New York City Council Passes Historic Bill Requiring the City’s Health Department to Create an Intersex Education Campaign
- 10/21/2020: Boston Children’s Hospital To Protect Intersex Children in Historic Moratorium on Non-consensual Infant Clitoral Reductions, Vaginoplasties
- 7/29/2020: Intersex Justice Project’s #EndIntersexSurgery Campaign Receives Unprecedented Promise of Action from a U.S. Hospital
- 10/24/2019: interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth Celebrates Intersex Awareness Day on 10/26 with Unprecedented Visibility, Momentum, and 2020 Legislation in Two U.S. States
- New York City’s Highest Ranking Health Official Condemns Surgeries to “Normalize” Intersex Traits Before Individual Consent
- New Iowa Law May be First in US to Restrict Unnecessary Operations on Intersex Children, But Denies Necessary Care to Trans and Intersex Adults
- California’s Legislative Fight to Protect Intersex Children Pushed to 2020
- California Passess Groundbreaking Resolution Celebrating Intersex People, First Legislation Of Its Kind To Address Infant Surgeries Condemned By Human Rights Experts
- San Francisco Human Rights Commission publicly supports CA Resolution 110
- interACT SPU Media Release Statement
- Center on Halsted: “It’s Time for the AAP to Provide Intersex Kids the Same Protections as LGBTQ Youth”
- I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US
- Fashion Model Hanne Gaby Odiele discloses she is Intersex