I have found way more commonality of experiences with my friends, in the greater intersex community, than I ever expected to. It has been a slow, steady learning process to see just how much we truly have in common, despite the fact that our differences are… well… quite different from each other.

Did you know that a person can be born with XO chromosomes instead of XX? They are among the 1 in 2000 people assigned female at birth who have Turner Syndrome! 💜💛 Learn more at the Turner Syndrome Society & Turner Syndrome Foundation, and interactadvocates.org/intersex-definitions/#Turner-Syndrome.

Intersex people often share overlapping struggles around medical trauma, sex and intimacy, hormones and surgery, body image, and gender identities. A broader understanding of “intersex” benefits not only MRKH folks on the supposed margins of “intersex”—but everyone!

It's MRKH Awareness Day! MRKH is a variation in sex traits where a person is born with a partial or absent uterus and a shallow or absent vagina. MRKH is present in 1 in 5000 people assigned female at birth—if you have MRKH, you are not alone. 💜💛 New MRKH gender-inclusive resource: mrkhisbliss.org

Victoria passes law protecting intersex children from unnecessary surgeries ➡️ https://bit.ly/4tGV1q0 📷 interactionorgau via Instagram

"...the law encouraging the types of dramatic surgeries like the one Cortez endured at a young age — one that forces parents to conform their intersex children to one gender or another."

You know February is #BlackHistoryMonth — but what about the Black intersex people whose voices are often unheard? Join five global speakers to celebrate intersex people of the African diaspora! Grab a ticket and join us and the Strategy Lab for Intersex Movements at tinyurl.com/intersexdiaspora.

The Transgender Bill of Rights also supports intersex bodily autonomy & human rights! The resolution calls for a ban on nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children. Every person deserves to feel safe and accepted and have the freedom to make decisions for their own bodies.

When a bill seeks to redefine gender based on reproductive systems, what does it mean for intersex people? The @texastribune.org talks to intersex Texans on the risks they see, like increased nonconsensual surgeries on children to fit them into these categories. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/11/t...

The best proof that sex is a social construct is how cultures treat their intersex population—esp. their medical practices around intersex newborns and kids, and what they hide/“fix” about them so they can lead “normal” lives. I wish it weren’t that controversial/provocative 🫠 Some good books:

This week we made history at Creating Change with its first-ever Intersex Caucus, and returned with our talk on intersex justice in LGBTQ advocacy! We spent this week building connections for intersex justice, as we will not be left behind in the movement for LGBTQIA+ rights. #CreatingChange26

Trans and Intersex erasure at any level of community is wrong and enables further inhumane denial of our right to life. Protect Trans and Intersex Youth! @aclu.org @aclu-dc.bsky.social @lambdalegal.org @pflag.org @interact.bsky.social

Today, intersex student athletes Amelia & Natalie came to the Supreme Court steps to speak out for trans & intersex school sports inclusion. Sports bans threaten intersex girls & women, too. "I cannot imagine what my life would be like today if 13 year old me had not joined the track team" -Amelia

We are headed to the Supreme Court! 🏃‍♀️ Join us, @aclu.org, and more of our partners on January 13 as SCOTUS hears oral arguments in two cases about the freedom of trans youth to be themselves on and off the field. 🏳️‍⚧️ RSVP & find actions near you: www.mobilize.us/lambdalegal/

Today we head to the Supreme Court as they hear about the rights of trans students to play sports. These bans threaten intersex girls & women, too. Amelia, an intersex student athlete from Kentucky, insists all students deserve the joys, confidence & friendship of sports! @lambdalegal.org @aclu.org

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

In the Dominican Republic, instances of 5 alpha-reductase (5ARD) are so common they are known as Guevedoces - "penis at twelve". www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

Psychology Today: Secrecy, shame, and erasure, not intersex traits themselves, are what create distress. When people are taught their bodies must be hidden or “fixed,” internalized stigma becomes a chronic health burden. @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/huma...

Please help us to end discrimination against trans kids and finally end non-consensual modification (mutilation) that is regularly done to intersex babies and children. If you don’t know what intersex means, or think that trans and intersex are the same, please ask me (good faith) questions.

The Trump administration proposed two regulations in December attacking gender-affirming care for trans youth and punishing hospitals for providing this care. Both include carveouts for intersex genital mutilation. The rules are NOT FINAL. You can push back. www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

Intersex stories matter—and this year, they were heard! ✨ We were in major outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Reporters are including us in coverage of sex, bodies, and autonomy. As we close out 2025, can you support our media work? secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...

Nothing About Us Without Us isn’t a slogan—it’s how change happens. For too long, intersex people have been spoken about instead of listened to. Today, we’re honoring the work of Dr. Coons to transform intersex care. 👉 Give today to support intersex-led change. secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...

It’s never been about ‘mutilation’ it’s always been about the control and denial of autonomy over one‘s own body.

interACT created a Self-Advocacy Toolkit because being intersex shouldn’t mean giving a whole TED Talk at every doctor’s appointment 😭 It's free for everyone: www.bit.ly/intersex-sel... Help us create more tools that put power back in intersex hands. Give today! secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...

Speaking in support of a bill that specifically allows genital mutilation, by name, on intersex infants and children.

The thing is, you can't make trans and intersex people nonexistent, you can only make them suffer.

The US House has passed HR 3492, the most extreme gender-affirming care ban Congress has considered yet. The bill's exemption for nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children is the first that also admits they are a form of genital mutilation. interactadvocates.org/us-house-pas...

Besides the fact that TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN, some cis women are born without uteruses, some intersex people are born with uteruses and can have any gender identity, and also my mom didn’t stop being a woman when she had a hysterectomy. This is not hard!

For intersex youth, community is lifesaving. 💜 “I finally feel connected to my intersex identity.” 💜 “interACT is lifesaving.” 💜 “So sigma.” This is the heart of the intersex movement: We show up for one another. Today, we’re asking you to show up too. Give: secure.lglforms.com/form.../s/8z...

This #HumanRightsDay, we are proud to endorse @markey.senate.gov's #InternationalHumanRightsDefenseAct. This bill, unequivocally, recognizes that the rights of LGBTQI+ people around the world are human rights and mandates human rights reporting on criminalization and violence. 🧵⬇️

If you are a woman, being intersex does not make you less of a woman. If you are a man, being intersex does not make you less of a man. If you are intersex and nonbinary, being intersex doesn't change who you are. Your intersex status doesn't determine your gender. Your gender belongs to you.

A DOJ memo to federal prisons explicitly instructs them to stop enforcing anti-rape laws against transgender & intersex prisoners. We are governed by monsters.

"Intersex and transgender advocates see it as a cruel irony that so many states allow these procedures on infants who are unable to consent, while banning them for adolescents who want them and have parental permission."

Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children

It’s still happening. Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need. Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies. equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...

Troubling research out of Australia finds 62% of surgeries on intersex children are due to parental distress. Nearly half of all surgeries were cosmetic, and over 15% for gender reinforcement. Protect intersex children and their right to bodily autonomy! qnews.com.au/62-of-surger...

in many states, the same procedures and treatments performed on intersex infants who are unable to consent have been banned for adolescents who want them and have parental permission

Let’s talk about intersex men and masculinity this #InternationalMensDay. Intersex describes someone’s body, not gender, so you can be both intersex and a man!

Today, we are celebrating intersex men, boys, and masculine people for #InternationalMensDay (November 19th!) by asking what intersex masculine joy means to them.

The bans should be the other way round and everyone should know that. Once again pure bigotry to create “exceptions“ to allow something so horrible but also take away any other options if a kid was assigned the wrong gender and is old enough to express it. It‘s really about cruelty only.

The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember. When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that took away their fertility and ability to produce their own hormones; they also describe it emphatically as intersex genital mutilation. www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/i...

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate trans young people. Trans & intersex are different - trans people have a gender other than that assumed at birth, & intersex people are born with variations in reproductive anatomy. Some people are both! Regardless, we will find our freedom together.

Intersex people deserve legal protection. So far, no state has outright banned nonconsensual intersex surgeries, but multiple have affirmed intersex rights. Youth advocate Tim created a map of state laws—both passed and failed—to educate change-makers. 🔎 bit.ly/intersex-legislation

Today is #IntersexDayOfRemembrance, a day highlighting the human rights issues faced by intersex people 💜💛 Art by @thefoxfisher 🎨

Our members are fighting to pass the #EqualityAct to protect intersex Americans' rights & dignity, because we know there's no justice for our community without justice for our intersex siblings. #IntersexDayofSolidarity

Thank you to all the allies who stand with us today, and to every individual intersex person brave enough to speak up and claim space. One day we will live in a world which puts science and humanity first and doesn't go all out to erase those who are inconvenient. #IntersexDayOfSolidarity

Although FGM is, rightly, banned in the UK, it's still acceptable for doctors to modify the bodies of intersex infants even when there is no medical need, purely to ease parental and social anxieties. This can leave people with lifelong pain and other complications.

When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.

(🧵1/4) November 8 is Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Day of Solidarity. Today, we honor and remember the members of the intersex community who we’ve lost over the years.

2 in every 100 people are intersex. Every time LGBTQ+ rights are under attack, intersex people’s healthcare, dignity and autonomy are at stake.  This Intersex Day of Solidarity, join orgs like @interact.bsky.social in the fight for intersex rights. 💜💛 interactadvocates.org/get-involved/