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The lead author of an eye-opening new report from the Trevor Project tells The Advocate about the "stigma" intersex youth face, how it impacts them, and how to rectify it.
Members of Inter/Act, a group of young intersex writers and advocates, have drafted an open letter about what 'intersex' is and what it means to have that gender option on Facebook.
MTV pushed intersex youth into the mainstream, without mockery or stigma.Â
"The political targeting of LGBTQ+ youth — and transgender and nonbinary youth in particular — must stop," says Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black.
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
The suit comes from notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rule is in keeping with the Biden administration's promise to support LGBTQ+ youth.
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
On Intersex Awareness Day, many people wear yellow and purple.
Intersex people make up nearly 2 percent of the population -- why are their lives so often invisible?
The statement comes on Intersex Awareness Day as a D.C.-based organization found almost 90 percent of U.S. LGBTQ+ intersex people report that they've faced discrimination from a health care provider.
Clayton Morris of Fox & Friends apologized for his inappropriate comment about changing his Facebook gender to "intersex."
The Massachusetts Medical Society takes a stand against doing intersex surgery without patients' consent, but other groups need to follow suit, writes Kimberly Zieselman.
The new administration must include intersex equality in their LGBTQ+ policy objectives.
The failure puts these incarcerated young people at risk and is bad for society as a whole, writes Sean Cahill of Fenway Health.
Don't let this administration leave the intersex community behind.
The state amended an intersex person's birth certificate to match their identity.
Advocates for intersex people speak out against the gender binary the Trump administration is seeking to impose.
A so-called "free speech" bus was spray painted with pro-trans messages on Thursday.
