Intersex in the News
May 2025
May 27, 2025
The Korea Herald: [Vitit Muntarbhorn] Sex and gender rights in a plural world
May 22, 2025
KJZZ: Author explains how Trump's policies on gender hurt people with intersex variations
The Texas Tribune: Texas may require medical records list patients’ sex assigned at birth
May 21, 2025
May 20, 2025
Texas Observer: Republicans Push to Define Biological Sex in Statute
May 12, 2025
California Budget and Policy Center: TGI Californians Face New Risks from Harmful Federal Proposals
The Dallas Voice: UPDATED: Texas House approves trans erasure bill HB 229 on 2nd reading
May 6, 2025
Advocate: First, do no harm—unless you're intersex or trans
May 5, 2025
WPTV: Worker files complaint to challenge Trump's federal transgender bathroom ban
May 2, 2025
DJ Mag: UK DJs and musicians sign open letter of solidarity to the trans community
May 1, 2025
Workers’ Liberty: "Scientifically illiterate ruling", say doctors
April 2025
April 30, 2025
The Guardian: More than 400 actors and industry figures sign open letter backing trans rights
April 29, 2025
April 25, 2025
Newsweek: Colorado Rancher Talks All About Her First 'They/Them Baby Lamb'
Science: The variable nature of sex
April 24, 2025
E-International Relations: Faith in Transition: A Week Inside a Gender Surgery Clinic
It’s Nice That: Transcestry celebrates a decade of community collecting at The Museum of Transology
April 22, 2025
KPAX 8: Temporary restraining order extended against Montana transgender bathroom bill
April 21, 2025
People Daily: The dark side of life as an intersex in Kenya
April 20, 2025
The Federal: TN LGBTIQA+ policy stalled over call for separate scheme for trans, intersex persons
April 18, 2025
Connecticut Public Radio: Intersex advocacy and the fight for bodily autonomy with Pidgeon Pagonis
April 17, 2025
April 16, 2025
ABC News: How did the UK Supreme Court define a woman and what happens now?
ILGA: 7 recommendations from intersex advocates to guide inclusive change
April 15, 2025
April 13, 2025
GhanaWeb: No Breasts, No Periods, Near Suicidal: Ghanaian intersex woman shares painful journey
April 8, 2025
Out: River Gallo wants more intersex stories — watch Ponyboi trailer
Assigned Media: An ‘Obscene Process’ to Police Women Athletes Rears Its Head Again
April 6, 2025
Resistbot Petition: Why did lawmakers vote for these despite ethical and constitutional concerns?
April 2, 2025
Erasing 76Crimes: ‘I don’t belong anywhere’: Intersex man in crisis finds a lifeline on Qtalk
UNDP Thailand: Being LGBTI in Asia and the Pacific (BLIAP)
April 1, 2025
Daily Bruin: Trump’s recision of past protections, new orders change the scope of LGBTQ+ rights
Medill Reports Chicago: Anti-transgender executive orders threaten intersex people
Washington Blade: Former US envoy for global LGBTQ, intersex rights slams Trump
March 2025
March 31, 2025
March 28, 2025
March 27, 2025
Commonweal: ‘The Church Is What We Do Next’
March 26, 2025
March 25, 2025
WBZ News Radio: ACLU Fights Against Trump's Passport Policy In Boston Federal Court
CBS8: Transgender Americans aim to block Trump's passport policy change
March 23, 2025
March 20, 2025
Stat+: Trump administration policies will create worse health care for intersex people like me
Dazed: This new exhibition celebrates trans, intersex and non-binary lives
March 17, 2025
Federal Times: VA leaders announce end to all transgender-related care for vets
March 13, 2025
March 12, 2025
Context: Vote for Olympic head could be key for trans, intersex athletes
March 10, 2025
March 8, 2025
March 7, 2025
Rolling Stone: The True Story of John / Joan
Modern Ghana: Suspension of US aid is ‘catastrophe’ for global LGBTQ rights movement
USA Today: ‘Passports taken by the government’: How new State Department rule blocks trans travelers
March 6, 2025
Windy City Times: WORLD Intersex Kenyans, foreign aid, Lesotho group, Pride parades
March 5, 2025
Decorah Leader: Beware: hypocrisy abounds
March 4, 2025
Daily Montanan: Bill redefining sex passes Senate Judiciary committee
March 3, 2025
Advocate: U.S. withdraws from U.N. LGBTQ+ and intersex group
Las Vegas Sun: Bigots should be mad at nature
February 2025
February 28, 2025
NYCLU: Testimony Regarding Oversight – Ensuring Access to Supports for TGNCNB People in NYC
February 27, 2025
ABC News: Major medical groups push back against Trump administration's 'sex-based definitions'
Iowa’s News Now: Iowa lawmakers rush bill stripping transgender & intersex civil rights protections
LAist: Trump's passport policy leaves trans, intersex Americans in the lurch
February 26, 2025
New York Times: How Trump’s Changes to U.S. Gender Policy Could Affect Your Passport
Verywell Health: New HHS Definition of Sex Excludes Transgender and Intersex People
February 25, 2025
9News: Expert discusses new Department of Health and Human Services guidance for 'sex' definition
February 24, 2025
Healthline: HHS' New Definitions of ‘Sex,’ ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ Defy Science, Experts Say
Hollywood Reporter: Karla Sofía Gascón Deserves Better (Guest Column)
February 23, 2025
Outlook India: Why Gender And Sex Binaries Cannot Be Placed In A Straight Line
February 21, 2025
NPR: Trump's passport policy leaves trans, intersex Americans in the lurch
February 19, 2025
New York Times: Citing ‘Biological Truth,’ Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes
Science News: Biological sex is not as simple as male or female
February 18, 2025
The Hill: The messy reality of biological sex can’t be defined by executive order
February 17, 2025
76 Crimes: Report: LGBTIQ people are particularly vulnerable to U.S. aid cuts
February 16, 2025
Moosejaw Today: Canadian LGBTQ+ advocacy group won't visit UN forum over concerns about U.S. border
Washington Senate Democrats: Priorities of the LGBTQ Caucus
February 14, 2025
The Hindu: The fight for intersex rights in India: a medical ethics and social justice perspective
February 13, 2025
Psychology Today: “What You’re Not Being Told About Anti-Trans Regulations”
The Brunswick News: “Columnist misses the mark on gender”
February 12, 2025
NJ Spotlight News: Turmoil in NJ over rush to block renewal of ‘X’ gender passports
February 11, 2025
Tuko: Kenya Officially Gazettes Intersex as Third Gender, to Be Recognised Alongside Male and Female
February 10, 2025
Deutsche Welle: Even 'the science' agrees there are more than two genders