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Judge Rules In Assoc. Dir. Dana Zzyym’s Favor for Nonbinary Passport!
Earlier today, a district court judge ruled in support of our Associate Director Dana Zzyym’s lawsuit for a passport that accurately reflects their sex as neither male nor female and we couldn’t be happier! As stated in the ruling: “I find that the Department failed to show that its decision-making process regarding the policy was…
Read MoreNew York City Soon to Allow Gender Neutral X on Birth Certificates!
As reported in The Daily Beast, New York City will soon allow non-binary people to amend birth certificates to a gender neutral “X.” New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson announced the landmark proposal, Introduction 954-A, back on June 4th in honor of pride month. It was cleared by…
Read MoreCelebrate Being Intersex in the Intersex Quarterly!
We are thrilled to announce our call for submissions to the Intersex Quarterly, our online quarterly produced in compunction with Indolent Books. Please add you voices folks, the world needs to hear from us! And please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.
Read MoreLeBron James Steps Out to Support Caster Semenya!
As reported in All 4 Women, LeBron James took the time out of his busy schedule yesterday to make a trip to Berlin to watch South African track star Caster Semenya’s races. Semenya, who was competing at the 2018 Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF), won the 1000m gold and the fifth fastest 1000m time in history. Running…
Read MoreIntersex Activist Hann Lindahl on California’s Intersex Legislation
InterACT’s Hann Lindahl gives Them. the scoop on the historic passage of California bill SCR-110, the first U.S. legislation to support intersex people’s right to bodily autonomy. We couldn’t be happier about this development, and thank and commend Lindahl for her work in helping to get the bill passed!
Read MoreCalifornia Passes First U.S. Legislation Urging Protection of Intersex Babies and Children!
As announced August 28th on twitter by Senator Scott Wiener earlier this week, California has become the first state in the U.S to pass legislation in support of intersex people’s right to bodily autonomy! Our resolution (#SCR110) urging the medical profession to delay medically unnecessary genital surgeries on #intersex babies has now fully passed the…
Read MoreDana Zzyym Interviewed on Radiolab
Our Associate Director Dana Zzyym shares their incredible journey toward wholeness as a non-binary intersex person and activist on WNYC Studio’s Radiolab. Radiolab has won Peabody Awards, a National Academies Communication Award “for their investigative use of radio to make science accessible to broad audiences.” Zzyym reveals how harmful the nonconsensual treatments they received as…
Read MoreAmazing Intersex Protest at Chicago Lurie Children’s Hospital
Yesterday, our colleagues Pidgeon Pagonis and Sean Safia Wall, at the Intersex Justice Project, pulled off their second protest for intersex bodily autonnomy at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. With assistance this year from Maximo Cortez and Koomah from the Houston Intersex Society, and numerous ally groups joining in support, the protest was easily the…
Read MoreGlobal sports community signs open letter to IAAF in support of intersex women athletes!
We have long awaited the day when athletes would step forward to support the intersex women unfairly targeted by the I.A.A.F. (the sports federation which governs track and field) and their discriminatory regulations, and that day has come! Today, Billie Jean King, Ally Wambach & five dozen other leading athletes joined Athlete Ally and the…
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