A documentary, chronicling our movement’s struggle over the past three decades, has just released—the first movie ever highlighting intersex existence to achieve nationwide theatrical distribution.

Source: https://time.com/6291609/intersex-community-every-body-essay/

Among intersex people, there is a push back against these interventions that they had no say in (and that their parents in some cases have been pressured into).

Source: https://jezebel.com/every-body-doc-shines-light-on-horrific-surgical-interv-1850543788

As anti-transgender legislation has swept the country — with lawmakers in many states preventing minors from undergoing gender-affirming care — carve-outs have been allowed for surgeries on intersex children to continue.

Source: https://www.mycentraloregon.com/2023/07/19/amid-transgender-care-bans-exceptions-made-for-surgery-on-intersex-children/

Both Seiler and Digashu said the support of the LGBTQ and intersex community and its allies has been a pillar of strength over the 6-year battle with the courts.

Source: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/29/ugandan-president-signs-anti-homosexuality-act/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ugandan-president-signs-anti-homosexuality-act

Discrimination and persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the country must be halted,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/08/uganda-authorities-must-drop-charges-in-death-penalty-case-under-anti-homosexuality-act/

Even media coverage of anti-trans bills that also target our bodies remove any evidence of the identities we were born with and the intersex community at large.

Source: https://time.com/6291609/intersex-community-every-body-essay/

“Every Body” (Focus Features, theaters): Oscar-nominated documentarian Julie Cohen turns her lens on three intersex individuals in her latest film.

Source: https://sentinelcolorado.com/uncategorized/summer-movie-guide-what-to-watch-from-may-through-labor-day/

For Canberra-based intersex educator and activist Cody Smith, this has been a long time coming.

Source: https://the-riotact.com/intersex-children-protected-under-act-law-from-having-irreversible-surgery-without-their-consent/669844

Given this, they contend that providing examples of people with ambiguous sexual anatomy (i.e., “intersex” conditions) not only disproves the sex binary but also demonstrates that biological sex is a meaningless and even oppressive categorization scheme.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/understanding-the-sex-binary

Its work indicates attitudes towards LGBTQ and intersex people in Mauritius have improved from where they were five years ago.

Source: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/08/05/mauritius-hosts-pan-africa-ilga-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mauritius-hosts-pan-africa-ilga-conference

Kennedy also said the demonstrations that have been taking place show the government is against the LGBTQ and intersex community.

Source: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/08/05/mauritius-hosts-pan-africa-ilga-conference/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mauritius-hosts-pan-africa-ilga-conference

LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, and more.

Source: https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2023/12/21/the-best-cathedral-president-akufo-addo-can-leave-ghana-is-anti-lgbtqia-law/

Perhaps nobody is more well-known for relying on the existence of intersex conditions to supposedly disprove the sex binary than the historian of science Alice Dreger.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/understanding-the-sex-binary

Roth Weigel, blonde and blue-eyed, notes she used to absolutely clean up in the online dating world — but that was before she came out publicly as intersex.

Source: https://www.ominecaexpress.com/trending-now/gender-revealing-what-does-it-mean-to-be-intersex/

So intersex people, we end up creating this whole facade, this whole story, this lie that we tell to people because there's so much stigma surrounding our bodies that we don't want anyone to ever find out that this is how we're born.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/09/26/intersex-inverse-cowgirl-alicia-roth-weigel/

So right now, every intersex activist is doing a little bit of everything.

Source: https://www.portlandmercury.com/lgbtq/2023/10/27/46810358/author-qanda-intersex-activist-alicia-roth-weigel-on-her-new-memoir-inverse-cowgirl

The court said that Islamic law and jurisprudence provided intersex persons with all the rights mentioned in the law.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/trans-people-cannot-get-their-gender-changed-rules-shariat-court/

The event promotes the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people in Slovakia, and will include a march through the city.

Source: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23193087/news-digest-storm-warnings-issued-for-evening-tomorrow.html

"The intersex community is vastly underfunded and underrepresented in terms of global identities," Roth Weigel told Mashable.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/every-body-film-review-intersex-community-activism

The LGBTQ and intersex community has existed in India since ancient times.

Source: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/06/25/marriage-equality-ruling-looms-over-pride-celebrations-in-india/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marriage-equality-ruling-looms-over-pride-celebrations-in-india