Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth
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| Founded | 2006 |
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| Founder | Anne Tamar-Mattis |
| Focus | Civil rights advocacy |
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United States |
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Key people
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Kimberly Zieselman, JD (Executive Director) Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD (Legal Director) |
| Website | interactadvocates.org |
interACT or interACT Advocates for Intersex Youth, formerly known as Advocates for Informed Choice, is a nonprofit organization using innovative strategies to advocate for the legal and human rights of children born with intersex traits. The organization was founded in 2006.
interACT was founded in 2006 in Cotati, California. The organization is now based in Sudbury, MA. The current board of directors includes Arlene Baratz, MD, Georgiann Davis, Emily Doskow, JD, Julie Greenberg, JD, Eric Lohman, Lynnell Stephani Long, Mani Mitchell, Karen Walsh, and Reid Williams. Staff include Kimberly Zieselman, JD, Executive Director, and Anne Tamar-Mattis, JD, Legal Director.
interACT uses innovative strategies to advocate for the legal and human rights of children born with intersex traits, including media work and the development of youth leadership, in addition to strategic litigation. Issues of focus are informed consent, insurance, identity documents, school accommodation, discrimination, medical records retrieval, adoption, military service, medical privacy, refugee asylum, and wider international human rights.
In 2014, following testimony by then staff member Pidgeon Pagonis, Anne Tamar-Mattis was published on medical interventions as torture in healthcare settings, in a book by the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law. In 2016, the United Nations Committee Against Torture asked the United States government to comment on reports of intersex medical interventions on infants and children, following submission of a report by interACT. As part of its submission, interACT stated that it is "unaware of any jurisdiction in the U.S. that enforces its own FGM laws in cases where the girl undergoing clitoral cutting has an intersex trait".
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