Intersex in the News

August 2025

August 28, 2025

LAD Bible: Mother born intersex responds to accusations she 'hoodwinked' her husband

August 27, 2025

People: Pageant Queen Was Told to Hide Her Intersex Condition. Then She Completely Shocked Everyone

The Times of Israel: Torah Saw Me Clearly: Intersex, Autistic, & Not Invisible

August 22, 2025

Dazed Digital: River Gallo on intersex beauty and their radical debut film, Ponyboi

August 21, 2025

California Faculty Association: Los Angeles Walk to Support Trans, Gender Expansive, and Intersex Communities

EurekAlert: Residing in conservative states is impacting the mental health of US LGBTQIA+ students—national study suggests

August 20, 2025

Adobo Magazine: When visibility becomes survival: Intersex Philippines launches national advocacy 

August 19, 2025

TNX: Police, prisons ordered to put up facilities for intersex persons

Psychology Today: Sex Is a Spectrum, and Science Keeps Saying So

KWQC 6: ‘Body Problems’: A real-life ‘Conclave’ story of faith, identity, and justice

The Kenya Times: Why Court Awarded Ksh1 Million to Kenyan Intersex Athlete Over Prison Harassment

August 16, 2025

Edge Media Network: Juliana Gleeson’s “Hermaphrodite Logic” Illuminates the Untold Story of Intersex Liberation

August 15, 2025

The Times of Israel: Forgiveness: My intersex journey

August 14, 2025

Decider: Netflix’s R-Rated ‘Fixed’ Has Dogs Boning, Urine Jokes, and Surprisingly Empathetic Intersex Representation

August 11, 2025

19th News: A hidden civil rights fight: New book shares the untold story of the intersex movement

Joysauce: How colonialism took hijras from spiritual leaders to the outskirts of Indian society

August 7, 2025

Medscape: LGBTQ+ Healthcare Professionals Face Hidden Burdens

August 6, 2025

WEHO Online: West Hollywood Evolving Colors: From Rainbow to Intersex Inclusion

July 2025

July 31, 2025

WZZM 13: 'Know my intersex story' | West MI TV and radio personality Jackie Blankenship opens up about her hormone condition

Pink News: Trans allies including Kate Nash and Alan Cumming criticise new UK schools sex education guidance

July 24, 2025

Cuba Headlines: Cuban Government Enacts New Childhood Code Amid Severe Social Crisis

July 23, 2025

AP: US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports

July 22, 2025

Bangor Daily News: We must move beyond misconceptions about sex and gender

July 20, 2025

Newsweek: Woman Shares 9 Facts About Her Intersex Body, No Longer Feels 'Shameful'

July 16, 2025

Nursing Clio: Our Bodies, Our Decisions: A Response to Andrew Sullivan’s NYT Essay

July 14, 2025

CU Independent: Intersex Symbol & Its Meaning

Mamba Online: “We Will No Longer Be Silent”: Ghana Supreme Court Nominee’s Intersex Remarks Criticised

Muddy River News: Are there really only two genders? Or sexes? Or whatever?

July 10, 2025

JoyNews: Dr. Michael Obeng Shares Rare Intersex Surgery Story in Gabon

NBC News: Why the Caster Semenya sex eligibility battle confounded sports for 16 years and still isn't over

Pink News: River Gallo on queer thriller Ponyboi and their ‘magnetic connection’ with Murray Bartlett

July 7, 2025

Them: ACLU Urges Trans People Who Need Passport Updates to Apply “As Soon as Possible”

Gaysi Family: Nature Is Queer And Binaries Don’t Exist

June 2025

June 30, 2025

Lemkin Institute: Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK

June 26, 2025

The Daily Beast: An Intersex Sex Worker Flees the Mob in New Dylan O’Brien Movie ‘Ponyboi’

Gay City News: Intersex representation and neon color intersect in ‘Ponyboi’

June 25, 2025

IndieWire: ‘Ponyboi’ Stars River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien on Lana Del Rey’s Influence and Having ‘Little Interest in Dabbling’ in Marvel

American Progress: The Intersex Community Faced Significant Barriers and Challenges in 2024

Huck: There have never been only two sexes — intersex people exist

June 24, 2025

Bay Area Reporter: Castro debuts intersex Progress flag

June 21, 2025

The Irish Times: Women’s Prize for Fiction winner on The Safekeep, being intersex and her childhood in Israel

June 20, 2025

CBS Austin: Gov. Abbott signs 'women's bill of rights' which opponents call an attack on trans Texans

June 19, 2025

Beyond Radio: Lancaster City Council declares support for trans and intersex people after biological sex ruling

June 18, 2025

Advocate: LGBTQ+ households earn 85 cents for every dollar — What's behind the disparity?

KBIA: Experts: executive orders redefining biological sex attempt to erase intersex people

USA Today: A judge blocked the Trump administration’s gender-restricting passport policy. Now what?

June 17, 2025

The Guardian: Trans people can obtain US passport that aligns with their gender identity, judge rules

June 13, 2025

Teen Vogue: 6 Intersex People on Why Gender-Affirming Care Bans Are Bad for Everyone

The Guardian: Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

June 10, 2025

IFL Science: People with Intersex Traits Transcend History and Cultures

June 9, 2025

GEN: Scientists Urge NIH Director to Restore Research Grants Halted by Trump Administration

June 5, 2025

ABC News: Lambda Legal, a nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ rights, exceeded fundraising goal by $105M

NYC Health: New York City Health Department Marks the Start of Pride Month

June 2, 2025

CBS News: "In Plain Sight": New sculpture in Philadelphia honors often overlooked members of LGBTQ+ community

The Chronicle: Mansfield to kick off Pride with flag-raising ceremony

May 2025

May 29, 2025

Counterpunch: Gender Norms in Today’s United States: Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading

May 28, 2028

ACLU of Texas: ACLU of Texas Comments on Passage of H.B. 229 — Discriminatory Definition of Sex Bill

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

InterACT: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ban on consensual healthcare openly endorses mutilation of intersex children

May 20, 2025

Texas Observer: Republicans Push to Define Biological Sex in Statute

Advocate: Here's what queer, transgender, and intersex people should know about prostate cancer after Biden's diagnosis

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

Philadelphia Inquirer: For Philly’s intersex community, Trump administration’s focus on gender and sex is a threat

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

ACLU: ACLU Asks Court to Expand Temporary Relief to All Trans, Intersex, and Nonbinary People Seeking Passports

April 29, 2025

The Darien Times: How Trump promotes a radical, unscientific theory about sex and gender in the name of opposing ‘gender ideology extremism’

April 25, 2025

Newsweek: Colorado Rancher Talks All About Her First 'They/Them Baby Lamb'

Science: The variable nature of sex

April 24, 2025

New York City Council: As Trump Administration Threatens Trans and Gender Non-Conforming New Yorkers, New York City Council Votes to Protect Civil Rights and Healthcare Access, Ensure Support

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

Ohio Capital Journal: Ohio budget would only recognize two sexes, excluding transgender community and intersex people

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

ILGA: Intersex human rights: one year after historic UN resolution, civil society keeps pushing forward

April 15, 2025

Pink News: Republican’s effort to defund LGBTQ+ initiatives goes viral after he’s baffled by the term ‘intersex’

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

Daily Montanan: Judge grants temporary restraining order against ‘bathroom bill’ governor signed last week

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

NJ Today: Declaring only two sexes is a dangerous attack on science, civil rights, and intersex Americans

March 28, 2025

Attitude: Conclave: ‘The world needs to know about the injustices intersex people face’ says filmmaker Pidgeon Pagonis

March 27, 2025

Commonweal: ‘The Church Is What We Do Next’

March 26, 2025

bioGraphic: To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm

March 25, 2025

WBZ News Radio: ACLU Fights Against Trump's Passport Policy In Boston Federal Court

The Frank Report: From Witness Tampering to the Mann Act: How the DOJ Played a Shell Game with Intersex Toni Fly’s Life

CBS8: Transgender Americans aim to block Trump's passport policy change

March 23, 2025

ACPC: Riley Gaines Act banning youth from sports and bathrooms faces broad opposition from local activists and advocates

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

Department of Veterans Affairs: RESCISSION (Sic) OF VHA DIRECTIVE 1341(4), PROVIDING HEALTH CARE FOR TRANSGENDER AND INTERSEX VETERANS

National Women’s Law Center: Queer, Trans, and On the Stand: tools for advocating alongside trans, nonbinary, and intersex clients

Media Matters for America: Right-wing media revive manufactured Olympic controversy in push to expand trans athlete bans, label intersex women as “males”

March 12, 2025

Context: Vote for Olympic head could be key for trans, intersex athletes

The 19th: Trans and intersex Americans’ health is suffering. The Trump administration could make it worse.

March 10, 2025

The 19th: Hospitals that paused youth gender-affirming care continued controversial intersex surgeries, group says

March 8, 2025

Rolling Stone: New Doc Explores Medically Unnecessary Surgeries Given to Intersex Kids — And the Trauma They Cause

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

Attitude: Conclave: ‘The world needs to know about the injustices intersex people face’ says filmmaker Pidgeon Pagonis

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

NEA: Educator Support for Transgender, Nonbinary and Intersex Students: Setting the Record Straight on the K-12 Schooling Executive Order

February 24, 2025

Healthline: HHS' New Definitions of ‘Sex,’ ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’ Defy Science, Experts Say

TravelAge West: Community Voices: How President Trump’s Rollback of Gender Identity Recognition Will Affect Travelers

Hollywood Reporter: Karla Sofía Gascón Deserves Better (Guest Column)

February 23, 2025

Idaho Statesman: Idaho lawmaker’s latest transgender bill would ban mixed-gender bathrooms in public spaces

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

GLAAD: “Unadulterated Animus”: Judge Exposes Inaccurate and Absurd Claims in Trump’s Executive Orders Targeting Transgender People

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

LGBTQ Nation: Black intersex people are among the most marginalized. LGBTQ+ people are part of the problem.

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

Salon: In a health care system bent on their erasure, intersex people continue fighting for recognition

February 11, 2025

ACLU: Orr v. Trump

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

February 7, 2025

LGBTQ Nation: This man learned he was intersex in a surprising way. He’s now taking on Trump’s “two sexes” order.

NewsNation: Doctor: Sex is a spectrum, and we have evidence