For many Americans, planning a doctor’s appointment comes with logistical headaches: taking a day off from work; scheduling months in advance; dealing with insurance coverage and related costs. For ...

When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall's male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy. He says his late mother agreed to the surgery ...

A California lawmaker is again attempting to ban medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children in the Golden State. A similar legislative effort died last year in the Legislature, and it ...

States receiving federal funding for foster care and adoption assistance programs would be required to prohibit certain surgeries for foster children born with intersex traits under legislation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 26, 1996, two intersex people, 26 self-proclaimed transsexuals and a hastily-printed box of T-shirts changed history ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has released a first-of-its-kind report on health equity for intersex individuals, citing the lasting harm surgical interventions inflict on infants and ...

The state Legislature has been in session for only a couple of weeks and already, a state Senate committee has failed on intersex rights, voting down Senate Bill 201, which would have protected body ...

Each year, doctors around the United States perform medically unnecessary, irreversible surgeries on children and infants with intersex traits to “normalize” their bodies. The procedures are done ...