Anti-Transgender Legislation Affects Intersex People, Too!
Why intersex people are also harmed by the anti-trans, anti-LGBTQ backlash and what YOU can do
State laws across the country, and now even federal policies, increasingly target transgender people and LGBTQ people more broadly. Lifesaving, necessary gender-affirming care is being restricted or even criminalized. Discriminatory policies and legislation, such as proper identity document bans, restrictions on participation in sports, and “sex definition” laws that police public restrooms, are attacking people in their day-to-day lives.
What many don’t realize is that every one of these laws and policies affects intersex people, too.
Every state law banning gender-affirming care explicitly allows nonconsensual “normalizing” surgeries on intersex infants, while banning consensual, affirming healthcare from transgender adolescents and increasingly, adults. These lawmakers seek to forcibly control trans and intersex people’s bodies at the cost of their health and autonomy.
Here at interACT, we support transgender and intersex people in the fight to access lifesaving, necessary care. Everyone deserves the right to make their own decisions about their own bodies and live authentically as themselves. We stand together in solidarity with transgender and LGBTQ people against discriminatory threats in the law.
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interACT works to empower intersex youth and advance the rights of all people with innate variations in their physical sex characteristics through advocacy, public engagement and community connection.