 interACT leadership provides
intersex training to Human
Rights Campaign staff.

Are you a member of an LGBTQIA+,
human rights, children’s rights, orhealth organization?
We’d love to collaborate.

Youth member
Erin Vlahović brings intersex
advocacy to Croatia. Are you interested in hosting anintersex speaker at your school,organization, or medical facility?
Our staff and youth advocates can make that happen.

Are you intersex or a parent of anintersex person?

 Staff and allies
celebrate the passing of SCR-110, the first resolution in the U.S.
affirming intersex bodily autonomy.

Contact us for more information. If you’re intersex
and in your teens or twenties, we have groups
exclusively led by and for intersex youth.

 Youth members at Creating
Change, a conference for
LGBTQIA+ leaders.

365 Boston Post Road
Suite 163
Sudbury, MA 01776
info@interactadvocates.org(707) 793-1190

Our People
Parents Eric andStephani Lohman on NBC discussing how
they pushed back against cosmetic clitoral
surgery doctors wanted for their daughter. 

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Advocates for Intersex Youthinteractadvocates.org

Advocates for Intersex YouthinterACT uses innovative advocacy strategies toprotect the rights of intersex youth.
We advocate for the bodily autonomy and protection of intersex youth
by raising awareness in the media, changing laws and policies, andempowering the next generation of intersex advocates.

Advocates for Intersex Youth

Programs

law and policy

media

interACT uses innovative legal strategies to protect the rights of children withdiverse sex characteristics. Our award-winning legal team allies with top LGBTQIA+
and human rights organizations to advance intersex rights nationally and globally.

We believe that intersex visibility sets necessary groundwork for law andpolicy changes. That’s why we’re dedicated to the sensitive portrayal of diverse intersex
narratives in the media. We ensure young intersex voices in particular are represented.

interACT writes and advocates policy
protecting intersex youth, like California’s
SCR-110: the groundbreaking 2018 resolution
co-authored by Senator Scott Wiener andEquality California is the first United States
legislation to name the harms of nonComms Director Hans and intersex
consensual medically unnecessary intersex
physician Dr. Suegee TamarMattis testifying for SCR-110.
surgeries as human rights abuses.

interACT has coordinated manyof modern media’s biggest intersex events:

We get materials directly into the hands of medical
influencers. interACT and Lambda Legal released Providing
Ethical and Compassionate Health Care to Intersex Patients, a firstof-its-kind intersex-affirming hospital policy guide to sensitive,
non-discriminatory care informed by intersex people and their
medical allies.

Intersex supermodel Hanne Gaby
Odiele speaks on intersex rights
at the Teen Vogue Summit. interACT also fights to support our LGBTQIA+ peers• We fought state-level bills that discriminated against
trans and intersex people.
• We supported Gavin Grimm’s case for trans students’bathroom access with an amicus brief to the Supreme Court.
• We spoke out against the HHS memo announcing
the Trump administration’s plans to narrowly
redefine sex and gender.

 Board Pres Georgiann
and Exec Dir Kimberly
with Katie Couric for
Gender Revolution.

Intersex People Oppose Trump Administration’s Narrow Sex and Gender
Definition Proposals
WHO:
MEDIA CONTACT:interACT: Advocates for Intersex YouthHans Lindahl, Communications Director
hans@interactadvocates.org(707) 793-1190“Intersex people have historically been erased by unnecessary shame, stigma and non-consensual
medical intervention. Increasingly we’re speaking out and fighting back, and today louder than everand in solidarity with our trans and gender non-conforming peers.”—Kimberly Zieselman (she/her), Executive Director, ​interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth— from interACT’s response to theleaked Dept. of Health and HumanServices memo  As a youth member, Amanda
was on Faking It as the firstever intersex person playing anintersex character!
• interACT partnered with supermodel Hanne Gaby Odiele
for preparation and media coverage of her 2017 comingout story. To date, she is the most well-known out
intersex celebrity.

Youth member Koomah speaking out against
bathroom bills that discriminate againstintersex and transgender people.

“Intersex people would, like our transfamily, be compromised in accessing all formsof public spaces.”• We consulted on MTV’s “Faking It”, the first TV
show ever to feature a main character with a
non-medicalized intersex identity.

“Any quest to define a bodily ‘marker’ to categorize and control marginalized sex, gender, andsexuality identities is not only false science, but fundamentally dangerous. The Administration’s
proposed sex and gender definitions erase intersex people, too. We are here to resist alongside our transand gender non-conforming family.”—Hans Lindahl (she/they), Communications Director, ​interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth“This administration’s stance regarding discontinuation of gender marker changes is violence against
transgender and intersex communities. The administration's inflexibility could create a situation inwhich intersex and trans people that have been wrongfully assigned to a gender due to false
perceptions of science cannot access passports, state IDs, and travel, in addition to the various formsof violence already existing against these groups.”—Robyn Foley (they/them), interACT Youth member, intersex and transgender advocate

Our work is increasingly international

interACT has collaborated with the United Nations,Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
and Outright Action International, in addition tonumerous global intersex advocacy groups.

youth leadership development
Youth member Banti J. presents ata GLSEN conference in Boston.
Young intersex voices are centeredin all of interACT’s work.
interACT Youth is a global online network of intersex
youth in their teens and twenties united inbuilding a movement by sharing their stories, anddeveloping advocacy and leadershipskills. Members are supported by interACTwith social connection, mental health discussions,media opportunities, project stipends and internships,training, and leadership development.

Youth member River Gallopresents in Los Angeles.
Youth members Jonathan and Amanda took over OUT
Magazine’s Instagram for Intersex Awareness Day.
interACT Youth is for young intersex people whoare ready to share their stories and educate
their communities, in ways big or small. Ourmembers come from all locations, backgrounds,
ability levels, and histories, and have a diverse range
of intersex experiences and talents to share with theworld. Emotional support is foundational to advocacy,which is why interACT Youth members also have accessto Facebook support groups and discussion sessions.

• We worked with National Geographic to ensureintersex representation in Katie Couric’s Gender
Revolution documentary and feature.
Our staff and youth have consulted on intersex musicals, TV and film scripts,
graphic novels, and more to show that there is no one intersex experience, andthat being intersex is absolutely something to be proud of:interACT Youth members host an advice panel for intersex teens.
iSpace is a peer support Facebook group exclusively by and for intersex
youth ages 13-30, with no requirements for involvement in publicity
or advocacy work. If a member is new to learning they are intersex, haslittle experience in the intersex community, or is new to advocacy, interACTrecommends exploring iSpace before applying for interACT Youth.
If you are an intersex youth interested in joining either or both groups,
please contact us! We’re all excited to meet you.