interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth is an intersex-led nonprofit (founded 2006) that advances the legal and human rights of children, teens, and young adults with innate variations in sex characteristics through litigation, legislative advocacy, public education, media engagement, research collaboration, and youth leadership development.
Promotes bodily autonomy and informed consent for intersex youth; campaigns to end non-consensual, medically unnecessary genital surgeries on infants and children; pursues medical privacy and records access, insurance and healthcare access, identity document reforms, anti-discrimination and school-accommodation policies, and international human rights protections for people with variations in sex characteristics.
Primarily funded by charitable contributions including individual donors and monthly donors (their \"interCircle\"), foundation and philanthropic grants, occasional program grants and small revenue from merchandise and fundraising activities.
Founder and legal advocate Anne Tamar-Mattis; current leadership including Executive Director Erika Lorshbough; partner and allied organizations such as Equality California, Human Rights Watch, Lambda Legal, ACLU, National Center for Lesbian Rights, The Trevor Project, Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; and policy collaborators such as California State Senator Scott Wiener.
Non-profit organization (501(c)(3))
