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interACT
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We see a world where intersex people make their own choices about their bodies. Policy & media org. 📸🦋➡️ @ interact_adv
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    interACT
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    Jan 30, 2025
    Intersex people have existed since the beginning of time and will exist until the end of time. No law, executive order, judge or advocate of pseudoscience can erase us. Their goal is to conceal any existence outside of an impossibly narrow sex binary. Our existence is resistance.
    "No one can legislate away our existence" text with the interACT logo sits in a purple circle on top of a collage of dozens of intersex people and allies smiling, waving, holding hands with friends, playing instruments, and carrying intersex flags.
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    Mar 23, 2022
    Idaho’s HB 675, which would have criminalized gender-affirming care for trans youth, is officially dead! As we celebrate this heartening victory, we cannot ignore the Idaho senate’s alarming admission that the bill was pulled not because of its shameful transphobia, but because
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    interACT
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    Oct 22, 2018
    #Intersex people #WontBeErased. Include us in the conversation, too. Read and share our statement fact sheet on how this news affects the intersex community. 👉 PDF here: tinyurl.com/y8knyofw We're here to resist in solidarity with our trans and GNC family.
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    interACT
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    Oct 21, 2019
    Do you know what you're doing for #IntersexAwarenessDay this Saturday? We've got you covered with a graphics toolkit: materials for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram posts AND stories! ✨Get it here: bit.ly/mibtoolkit
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    interACT
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    Feb 4, 2019
    interACT is thrilled to announce our co-sponsorship of California's #SB201. By passing this bill, CA would affirm that cosmetic procedures permanently affecting fertility, puberty, and sexual function must be delayed for an individual's informed consent. #DelayIsOkay
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    interACT
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    May 1, 2019
    The discrimination faced by Caster Semenya today is another example of the intense ignorance faced by women athletes who have differences in their sex traits. Intersex women are women. Trans women are women. ALL women's bodies are different. #thread
    Caster Semenya loses landmark legal case against IAAF over testosterone levels
    From theguardian.com
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    interACT
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    Jul 19, 2022
    Greece has taken a momentous step today for human rights by banning #intersex genital mutilation, becoming one of the first countries to do so.
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    interACT
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    Oct 10, 2019
    Intersex people often have chromosomes that do not “match up” with their external genitalia. But some doctors still believe it is okay to permanently change the genitalia and other sex traits of intersex children by recommending unnecessary surgeries to parents. #MyIntersexBody
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    interACT
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    Mar 23, 2022
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    it didn’t give a clear enough pass to doctors who perform harmful and unnecessary surgeries on intersex infants. Everyone deserves to feel at home in their bodies.
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    interACT
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    Aug 1, 2024
    Women with variations in their sex traits are among the 2% of the population born with a difference in their chromosomes, hormones, or reproductive anatomy. This is not the same as being transgender—although ALL women deserve to compete without discrimination.
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    Aug 1, 2024
    Joint Paris 2024 Boxing Unit/IOC Statement olympics.com/ioc/news/joint…
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    Jul 30, 2024
    Did you know sex testing in the Olympics started under the Nazi regime, which discriminated against a successful intersex athlete? "These policies—and the rigid notions of biological sex that animate them—come directly from Nazi officials." #Olympics2024
    time.com
    The Nazi Myth Behind Olympics Gender Verification Policies
    The story of Heinz Ratjan has been used to justify gender testing at the Olympics—but we've gotten it all wrong.
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    interACT
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    Dec 3, 2014
    .@MTVFaking fans can donate to @InterActYouth & get to hang on set! | @Indiegogo campaign: bit.ly/intersexJustice
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    interACT
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    Jul 14, 2019
    Happy #NationalNonbinaryDay! Great time for reminders: 💛 Intersex ≠ the same as/automatically nonbinary gender 💛 Intersex ≠ always wanting third gender/ID markers 💛 Some intersex people have nonbinary gender, some don't 💛 Body parts don't define gender 💜 YOU are valid
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    interACT
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    May 15, 2023
    Twitter is regularly flagging and hiding our education about intersex youth under claims of "sensitive content." We will fight and appeal this censorship. We have the right to exist openly as #intersex, and so do the young people born with variations in their sex traits.
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