SCR-110: California’s Intersex-Affirming Resolution
SCR-110, a resolution passed by the state of California in August 2018, is the first legislation in U.S. history to name the harms of non-consensual medical interventions on intersex people.
SCR-110: California’s Intersex-Affirming Resolution
The non-binding resolution, authored by interACT, Equality California, and California State Senator Scott Wiener, calls on the medical profession to heed international human rights guidelines and delay non-consensual procedures that would affect future sexual function—such as vaginoplasties, orchiectomies, and clitoral reductions—until an individual can participate in the decision. It represents a historic first step toward policy that centers the rights and voices of intersex people.
What is SCR-110?
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“…The Legislature recognizes that intersex children should be free to choose whether to undergo life-altering surgeries that irreversibly—and sometimes irreparably—cause harm.”
Who else supported SCR-110?
Senator Scott Wiener, Equality California, and interACT had fantastic supporters nationwide who helped get our message of celebration to the ears of California’s legislators. These partners included:
California Uplifts Intersex Youth
interACT Youth members celebrate worldwide!
Wore my #toocutetobebinary shirt to school today cause I’m so damn proud to be intersex in California.
For intersex teenagers and adults all around the world, this is the first step toward healing. It tells us ‘what happened to you was wrong, and we’re taking steps to make sure it doesn’t happen to the next generation of intersex people.
As intersex activists we want to save intersex kids in the future from the things that we had to experience ourselves. And it’s moments like this that give us hope. UN has been condemning unnecessary surgeries on intersex children as human rights violations for years — and it’s time to listen. I hope that SCR-110 is only the beginning, and that in the future other states and countries will follow California’s example by recognizing and then protecting intersex human rights. After all, what we fight for is very simple – everyone has the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies.
With the passing of this legislation it just shows that the activist work myself and so many other intersex people are doing is saving thousands of future children from the trauma we were given because we didn’t have autonomy. This is for the thousands of children either newborn [or] yet to be born, this is for you to have the right to your bodily autonomy. We are fighting for you.” — Johnny (he/him)
SCR-110 in the Media
