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As a team we hope to be inclusive of all intersex people, while maintaining our own personal boundaries and respecting our limitations.
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While we all have different knowledge, we are not physicians and we cannot diagnose you or tell you if you are intersex or not. It is also worth stating that nothing we say about a condition is conclusive; there will be variation in everyone that we cannot always account for.
What we can do is point you in possible directions, link resources, share experience, engage in conversation, help you understand terminology, etc.
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Finding joy through Black intersex resistance - Sean Saifa Wall
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From my standpoint as a Black queer intersex person, my joy must be informed by a radical reckoning of racialized terror against my people in the USA and reconciling medical violence that has historically harmed Black intersex bodies. Conversations about race and colonization have been nearly absent in critical intersex studies.
- Sean Saifa Wall, 2025
Today, the House passed H.R. 3492, a dangerous bill to criminalize gender-affirming care with an exception for nonconsensual surgeries on in
“H.R. 3492 attacks essential medical services for transgender youth and attempts to mischaracterize consensual care as ‘mutilation.’ The so-called ‘Protect Children’s Innocence Act’ then endorses actual genital mutilation, by name – so long as it’s happening to intersex kids. That is a striking admission of their policy priorities,” said Sylvan Fraser Anthony, interACT’s Legal and Policy Director.
“This bill was never about protecting anyone. We should all be troubled that our representatives disregarded the open hypocrisy of this legislation and the irreparable harm it will inflict on transgender and intersex youth.”
The most painful thing is knowing that the people around you feel for you but don't do anything, even though they know you desperately need them.
Today, I went to a nearby lab and they told me that my condition and that of my children are critical. They told me that my entire family and I are suffering from malnutrition.
We miraculously survived the war and were lucky, but will we be so lucky that we can recover from this disease? Therefore, I hope that you, Tumblr users, will stand by me and donate or share this post everywhere. Thank you. You are kind. I love you.
Image description: [two graphics in yellow and purple that say: “We can’t change people’s hearts and minds if they’re not even aware we exist. Raising visibility is the first step in realizing meaningful change and this postering action will help drive Google searches or conversations that set the stage for improving the rights and healthcare of intersex people nationwide. We’re here, we’ve been here, and we’re not going anywhere.” (Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex advocate, Cityof Austin human rights commissioner.)
Second graphic says: “I want to create a world in which people born with variations of sexual anatomy are free to live a life with dignity and respect. I am advocating for a world where intersex children can enjoy bodily autonomy and where the uniqueness of their bodies, and our bodies as intersex adults, are upheld in their integrity and beauty.” (Sean Saifa Wall, intersex activist, artist, and public health researcher.) /end image description]
shoutout to intersex people who just found out that they are intersex. It can be a difficult process with a lot of complex feelings, but know that you are not alone and whatever you are feeling is valid. The intersex community has your back, and you deserve support and community. Even with this new information about yourself, you're still the same person you were before, and know that you do not need to feel shame about being intersex. You belong in intersex community 💜
It is October 26th, intersex awareness day! Intersex friends, today is for us. I'd like to share this quote from Sean Saifa Wall:
"By connecting with other intersex people, it literally saved my life, because we had the constant script that we are alone, that we are rare. I think intersex activism, and intersex justice actually lets people know that we are not alone” -Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice and Intersex Justice in Conversation.
We are not alone. We are valuable, and our intersex identity is worth celebrating. Our community knowledge, care for each other, and solidarity is worth celebrating. Our intersex joy is worth celebrating.
When so many of us experience trauma, violence, and isolation, awareness days can bring all sorts of emotion to us. There is room for all of the messiness--whatever being intersex means to you is important, and you deserve the space to express yourself.
Feel free to add on this post and tell us how you're celebrating intersex awareness day today--whatever that looks like for you.
For anyone who wants to learn more about intersex, check out this post and our resources.
I know I say this all the time, but I love you intersex people <3
I love intersex people who are traumatised and messy about it. I love intersex people who are still figuring out how to love their bodies. I love intersex people who are still unsure of how being intersex slots in with the rest of their identity. I love disabled intersex people who want to go remake the entire medical system. I love intersex people who are trying their best to fight for their intersex siblings
from one messy intersex person to another. wherever you might be around the world. I love you and I’m here for you
sometimes looking around at all the trauma in the intersex community makes me exhausted. our rage & grief & pain is a lot to carry, but it's easier when we can hold that together. at the intersex conference one thing that constantly stood out to me was the fact that so many of us shared the same stories of shame and violence and loss, and how imagining intersex joy felt incredibly impossible sometimes.
and how we want to try to imagine it anyway, because we want to build a world filled with intersex joy and compassion and love, because of and despite of the trauma we've survived.
for me, things that brought me intersex joy lately are being able to hug another intersex person after realizing how similar some parts of our life were. going to a lake with six other intersex people and just feeling so confident in public together. seeing the beautiful art and writing that so many intersex people are creating. watching the Every Body film in a room full of intersex people.
anyway. if any intersex followers want to add on something that brings them intersex joy, please do.
something else i've been thinking about a lot in the past couple days in regards to the amount of rampant transmisogyny within the intersex community on tumblr is how the most recent wave seemed to start with just a few users and their mutuals who were openly posting this kind of stuff and inciting harassment campaigns against trans women, but how so much of that rhetoric has spread pretty wide into many different parts of intersex tumblr, and also is often the first introduction to intersex topics for people questioning intersex on here.
and to me, that makes it very clear that a lot of this stuff has been happening in smaller and bigger ways for many years before this, and that many of the intersex users on here who might have claimed to be transfeminists at one point have not bothered to evaluate the ways in which we might be complicit in perpetuating this kind of shit within the online intersex community.
i'm thinking about the amount of interactions i've had with intersex people on this site who will privately say to me "well, i agree with what you're saying about xyz tumblr user, but I like their other intersex posts" or "well I can't say anything about transmisogyny on this blog because I'm mutuals with one of their mutuals and i don't want them to get mad at me" or "the intersex community is so small, i can't afford to alienate people by speaking out against what this person is doing" or people just reblogging posts claiming that terms are historically intersex exclusive without bothering to do a basic search of whether or not that's true. or several other examples I could give of ways that people are spreading this rhetoric or participating in harassment campaigns under the guise of plausible deniability. i'm also thinking a lot about all the intersex transfem friends i had on here who have now deleted their blogs and who have been basically de facto exiled from other intersex groups that they used to be a part of, and how we now just connect in other ways online because they were facing so much harassment on here.
sometimes it feels like the main discussions on here that involve intersex topics seem to have shifted so far away from real life discussions of intersex experience and instead seem to mostly just be about intersex identity as a rhetorical concept. and in particular, people trying to find ways the concept of intersex identity can be weaponized to attack transfeminist theory.
I'm also reflecting on how so much of this shit isn't new. I remember back 3 and a half years ago when mod Stev and I made an announcement in the (now mostly inactive) intersex discord server associated with this blog saying "Please don't use the word/concept of transandrophobia or transmisandry in this server; here's four sources and a long explanation of why this is the guideline if you want to keep engaging in this space" and how big an upset that was at the time and the amount of hate we got for that from some people. I'm thinking about how there was a known transphobic intersex tumblr blogger who got so mad about me calling her out on her transphobia that she deleted her blog back in...i want to say it was 2021? and despite that, she came back this year for a while and got popular again incredibly fast, in part because of the ways she was openly spreading terf rhetoric.
the intersex tag on here seems to me like the worst it's ever been in terms of harassment and intra-community violence in the six years this blog has been on tumblr in a way that is also concerningly bleeding into some of the irl intersex activist spaces I'm in. and i think that if the tumblr intersex community doesn't start actively speaking up about the shit that is going on right now and actually confronting the people in our community who are posting hateful rhetoric and harassing trans women that it is just going to get worse. especially when it comes to transmasc people in the tumblr intersex community who have been silent or actively posting this kind of thing, (and to be clear, i'm saying that from my positionality as a tme intersex person--this is a critique that i'm including myself in here.)
i don't really know how to end this post except for to say that i do believe it is possible to have a movement for intersex liberation, built on the principles of intersex justice that works to build resources and community and safety. but i don't think that can happen without actively (to quote the 10 Principles of Disability justice) building a commitment to cross-movement organizing and leadership of the most impacted. and that i don't think there's any way we will have a movement for intersex liberation without transfeminism.
ID: [A poster created by Sean Saifa Wall and Micah Bazant of a Black parent holding their child. They are dressed in white and almost seem to be glowing, in front of a backdrop of multicolored waves that look like DNA strands. Colorful text reads "Protect Intersex Youth."]
"A Framework for Intersex Justice
Intersex justice is medical justice. Intersex surgeries hurt everyone.
These medical violations bring immediate harm to the child who is subjected to them.
Parents who consent to medically unnecessary surgeries participate in a culture of shame, silence and stigma, perpetuated by doctors, that allows these surgeries to continue. Parents are often left to fend for themselves as they navigate shame and guilt. The issue of parents consenting to these surgeries is especially complex when societies believe that children don’t have individual rights and that parents are always acting in their best interest.
Medical practitioners such as pediatricians, obstetricians, urologists, social workers, and endocrinologists all play a role in upholding an institution that continues to harm children with intersex variations. The practitioners, in turn, are protected by hospitals and state laws that grant them immunity.
This is why intersex justice is important.
Although the framework is evolving, the following is a definition of intersex justice co-created with Dr. Mel Michelle Lewis (they>she), an Associate Professor of Gender/Sexuality in Studio and Humanistic Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art: Intersex justice is a decolonizing framework that affirms the labor of intersex people of color fighting for change across social justice movements. By definition, intersex justice affirms bodily integrity and bodily autonomy as the practice of liberation. Intersex justice is intrinsically tied to justice movements that center race, ability, gender identity & expression, migrant status, and access to sexual & reproductive healthcare. Intersex justice articulates a commitment to these movements as central to its intersectional analysis and praxis. Intersex justice acknowledges the trauma caused by medically unnecessary and nonconsensual cosmetic genital surgeries and addresses the culture of shame, silence and stigma surrounding intersex variations that perpetuate further harm.
The marginalization of intersex people is rooted in colonization and white supremacy. Colonization created a taxonomy of human bodies that privileged typical white male and female bodies, prescribing a gender binary that would ultimately harm atypical black and indigenous bodies. As part of a liberation movement, intersex activists challenge not only the medical establishment, which is often the initial site of harm, but also governments, institutions, legal structures, and sociocultural norms that exclude intersex people. Intersex people should be allowed complete and uninhibited access to obtaining identity documents, exercising their birth and adoption rights, receiving unbiased healthcare, and securing education and employment opportunities that are free from harm and harassment.
This framework serves a radical vision where intersex children are protected and survivors of genital cutting are cared for and respected. We owe that to intersex people and we owe that to ourselves.
The implementation of an intersex justice framework should include the following components:
1. Informed consent
2. Reparations
3. Legal protections
4. Accountability
5. Language
6. Children's rights
7. Patient-centered healthcare."
-Intersex Justice Project, founded by Sean Saifa Wall, Lynnell Stephani Long, and Pidgeon Pagonis.
"When Intersex Justice Project was established it was revolutionary. At least to my knowledge, except for the Intersex Society of North America’s protest of the annual convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1996, there hadn’t been any
sustained protest by intersex people and, in particular, Black intersex people and intersex people of color. In thinking about the Intersex Rights Movement, there was a coalescing with Hermaphrodites with Attitude and Transexual Menace, but IJP was born of a radical ethic centering people of color in intersex work, something that historically hadn’t been done. Because of the way intersex people are so heavily pathologized, it’s really important to liberate intersex identity from medicine. IJP humanizes intersex people who have been pathologized.
...My desire for founding IJP was to create a safe space for me and people like me to be supported. Most organizations in the United States are not capable of supporting Black leadership. Period. I’ve experienced my leadership being undermined and my ideas appropriated. This is a microcosm of what actually happens to Black people in leadership. My desire to found IJP was to make a safe place for Black people, and I really want to center Black people and intersex people of color in this work.
Especially at this moment in the United States, as we are contending with racism and anti-Blackness, how does Blackness relate to being intersex? How does being Black and intersex relate to disability? How does it relate to being poor? How does it relate to reproductive justice? For me, it was really about making those strong connections. In this second wave of the intersex movement, the work has to be connected to other social identities and categories if it’s going to succeed. Historically this work has been done in a silo. For me, intersex justice is being in conversation with other movements."
-Sean Saifa Wall, interviewed By David A. Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr in Creating Intersex Justice, 2021.
"In this moment, we don’t have the numbers. I think we have still been able to do such amazing work, but it seems like the suffering has to be immense and overwhelm the system before people are willing to get involved. We need a mass of people who feel this issue as their own, who have been affected, who have been harmed . . . it has to be such a large number of people to physically demand that it stops because it won’t happen before then. Pediatric urologists have literally gone on record saying that they won’t stop performing surgeries on intersex children unless there is a legal obligation to do so. They are financially incentivized to do surgery.
When we think about justice movements, they take decades, even centuries. It’s a slow unfolding process. The intersex movement is so nascent—just a little over thirty years old in the United States. It is going to require numbers and for people in the medical field to become brave enough to admit what their colleagues are doing is wrong and not stand by it. We need people within the medical fraternity to take a stand against their colleagues. I see a relationship between the order of police and the medical fraternity. Things will not shift until people are brave enough to do something. It’s going to take a multipronged approach. There needs to be a broader level of awareness of intersex issues. Because when people hear about it, they’re like, “This is bullshit what you are doing to these children!" People don't even know what intersex is, and I think that speaks to the level of erasure we experience."
-Sean Saifa Wall, interviewed by David A Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr in Creating Intersex Justice, 2021.
ID: Intersex activist Max Beck standing in front of the American Academy of Pediatrics with a sign that says Silence=Death.
On October 26th, 1996, the first ever protest for intersex liberation in America took place when activists from Hermaphrodites With Attitude took to the streets to protest the American Academy of Pediatrics. Later memorialized as intersex awareness day, this important action was a milestone for the American intersex movement. Max Beck, one of the intersex activists from HWA, documented the entire protest and later published their recollection in the Intersex Awakening Issue of the Chrysalis Journal. The full piece is pasted under the cut.
"But we’re here today to say we’re back, we’re no longer lost, and we’d like to offer some feedback. We’re here to say that the treatment paradigm for “managing” intersexuals is in desperate, urgent need of re-examination. We’re back to say that early surgical intervention leads to more than “just” physical scars and sexual dysfunction. We’re back to say that the lack of education and counseling for intersexuals, our families and the community at large does not lead to a blissful, healthy, well-adjusted ignorance. Rather, it too often leads to a life-threatening shroud of silence, secrecy, and self-hatred.
I’m here representing over one hundred fifty intersexals throughout North America. One hundred fifty intersexuals are saying: Please! Listen! You doctors, you pediatric endocrinologists and urologists treating intersexuals, you nurses interacting with intersexuals and their families, listen to us! We understand intersexuality, not because we have studied the medical literature — although many of us have — not because we have performed surgeries, but because we have been grappling with intersexuality every day of our lives. We’re here to say that those who would have us believe that intersexuality is rare, cloud the issue by breaking us and separating us into narrow etiological categories which have little meaning in terms of our actual, lived experience.
We’re here so that other intersexuals can find us — for many of us, finding others like ourselves has been a lifealtering, even life-saving, experience. We’re here to reach parents before their intersex child is born. We’re here to elicit the help of other sympathetic professionals. We can take a stand as openly intersex adults without being crushed by shame! And we did!"
Hermaphrodites With Attitude Take to the Streets: By Max Beck, 1997
In late October of 1996, Hermaphrodites with Attitude took to the streets, in the first public demonstration by intersexuals in modern history. On a glorious fall day, the like of which you can only find in New England, under a crackling, cloudless sky, twenty-odd protesters joined forces to picket the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatricians in Boston. Deeply aware of the historical and personal significance of the action, and — correctly — surmising that a notebook diary would not be practical on such a whirlwind, windy week-end, I took a small hand-held tape recorder with me. What follows are excerpts from the resulting transcript.
October 24, 1996 2:45 PM, Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport
The trip has only just begun and I am already exhausted. Hot. Starving. Fifteen minutes until take-off. Every businessman boarding the plane looks like a pediatric endocrinologist, Boston-bound. Silly thought, testimony to what? My anxiety? My fear? My giddy anticipation? If these bespectacled, suit-and-tie sporting men were pediatricians, would they be flying coach on Continental, with a layover in Newark? I’m headed for Boston, for the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP). Tens of thousands of pediatricians. I’m not a pediatrician, though, nor am I a nurse; in fact, I barely managed to complete my B.A. I’m a manager of a technical laboratory. We don’t work with children, and the AAP certainly didn't invite me, so why am I going?
With the plane taxiing toward take-off, this is a lousy time to reassess. I’m going. I’m going because I am intersexed. I’m going because the doctors and nurses who treated me as an infant and a child and an adolescent, and those who continue to treat intersexed infants and children today, consider me “lost to follow-up.” I was lost— that’s part of the problem. Now, I’m back.
9:02 PM: Boston’s North End
I’m comfortably ensconced in Alice’s warehouse condo in Boston’s North End, a renovated warehouse with a view of the city skyline, ceilings easily twenty feet high, exposed beams and brick, gorgeous tile floor. As I speak, my hostess is preparing an absolutely phenomenal meal. The aroma of roasted peppers permeates the entire space. Tomorrow, the work begins; my project this evening is to unwind and enjoy this wonderful meal. Easier said than done. I’m feeling excited, enervated, I feel very alive, something I don’t feel very often, I feel very present and aware. It could be my exhaustion, it could be the Chardonnay. But I think, rather, that the excitement is anticipation about what we are about to do. Being here, finally being prepared to raise a voice, to be heard, to be seen, a vocal, out, proud hermaphrodite who is standing up to say, “Let’s rethink this, this isn’t working, we’ve been hurt, stop what you’re doing, listen to us!” I’m really looking forward to meeting Morgan at the airport in the morning; it’s always amazing to make eye contact with someone else who has been there.
October 25, 7:38 AM Boston Commons
En route to my encounter with the AAP, walking the approximately two miles from my hostess’ domicile to the Marriott Hotel at Copley Square, I pause in the Boston Commons to enjoy a park bench, to sip my Starbuck’s decaf, and to watch a group of senior citizens performing Japanese swordsmanship on top of the hill beneath a monument to some forgotten general. The city is cool this morning, but clear, and it promises to be a beautiful weekend. That’s good: we won’t be rained out. I’ve got a stack of about ninety ISNA brochures in the bag at my side, crammed in the inside pocket of my leather jacket. If I want these pamphlets to get inside, I’ve got to get to the site of the Nurses’ Panel at the Marriott before they close the doors. Then it’s back out to the airport, to pick up Morgan. My feet are already killing me.
October 26, 9:15 AM: North End
Morgan and I are sitting at our hostess’ breakfast table, pulling our thoughts together. In a few minutes, we’ll have to leave to pick up Riki at the airport. The logistics of pulling together an action are mind-boggling. There’s no describing the thrill, though, of all that work, all those phone calls, all those miles. Riding a clattering subway on a Saturday morning, seated beside another living, breathing, laughing, swearing intersexual, hugging near-strangers at unfamiliar airports, then riding back, together, defiant, determined, organized, to the heart of so much of our pain, so much of our anger, so much of our need. We gathered in front of the huge Hynes Auditorium, pamphlets and leaflets in hand, and met the AAP attendees as they left the convention center for lunch. The next hour-and-a-half was a blur, as we positioned ourselves in strategic locations before the Hynes, held signs and “Hermaphrodites with Attitude” banner aloft, distributed our literature, engaged AAP members and passers-by in conversation and debate, spoke to microphones, to cameras. In all that time, I recorded only one fragment of a breathless sentence.
Saturday, 12:20 PM Outside the Hynes
We’ve got all the exits covered, and it’s an incredible, incredibly empowering experience. I remember the words I spoke to the TV camera, if only because I had scribbled a rough outline on the airplane, pirating mightily from Cheryl’s press release. And because the moment was so salient, so real. Me, Max, bespectacled, with blisters on my feet and chapped lips, speaking out to untold numbers of invisible viewers (and a few bewildered pediatricians behind me.)
"When an intersex child is born, parents and caregivers are faced with what seems to be a terrible dilemma: here is an infant who does not fit what our society deems normal. Immediate medical intervention seems indicated, in order to spare the parents and the child the inevitable stigmatization associated with being different. Yet the infant is not facing a medical emergency; intersexuality is rarely if ever life-threatening. Rather, the psychosocial crisis of the parents and caregivers is medicalized.
Intersexuality is assumed to be a birth defect which can be corrected, outgrown and forgotten. The experiences of members of the intersex support groups indicate that intersexuality cannot be fixed; an intersex infant grows up to be an intersex adult. This hasn’t been explored, because intersex patients are almost invariably “lost to follow-up.” The abstract of a talk that will be given at this very conference by a doctor who treats intersex infants concedes that “the psychological issues surrounding genital reconstruction are inadequately understood.”
Part of the problem is that we were lost to follow-up, and there were reasons for that. But we’re here today to say we’re back, we’re no longer lost, and we’d like to offer some feedback. We’re here to say that the treatment paradigm for “managing” intersexuals is in desperate, urgent need of re-examination. We’re back to say that early surgical intervention leads to more than “just” physical scars and sexual dysfunction. We’re back to say that the lack of education and counseling for intersexuals, our families and the community at large does not lead to a blissful, healthy, well-adjusted ignorance. Rather, it too often leads to a life-threatening shroud of silence, secrecy, and self-hatred. I’m here representing over one hundred fifty intersexals throughout North America.
One hundred fifty intersexuals are saying: Please! Listen! You doctors, you pediatric endocrinologists and urologists treating intersexuals, you nurses interacting with intersexuals and their families, listen to us! We understand intersexuality, not because we have studied the medical literature — although many of us have — not because we have performed surgeries, but because we have been grappling with intersexuality every day of our lives. We’re here to say that those who would have us believe that intersexuality is rare, cloud the issue by breaking us and separating us into narrow etiological categories which have little meaning in terms of our actual, lived experience. We’re here so that other intersexuals can find us — for many of us, finding others like ourselves has been a lifealtering, even life-saving, experience. We’re here to reach parents before their intersex child is born. We’re here to elicit the help of other sympathetic professionals. We can take a stand as openly intersex adults without being crushed by shame! And we did!
7:20 PM: Boston’s North End
Goddess, this is so sweet, so liberating! I was so reluctant a week ago, having my Jesus-in-Gethsemane experience, reluctant to accept — not an onus or responsibility but — to accept who I am. And here’s where the hard work really begins. I’m exhausted when I think of the road before us. But then, it’s nothing like the road behind us.
"Recounting this brief historical account alongside Semenya's sex-testing controversy draws attention to the way that the spectre of supposed degenerate genital and sexual ambiguity was, and remains to be, imagined and constructed by colonial and imperial forces across gender, racial, national, and geographical lines. The spectre of intersex has been and continues to be used as a colonial and imperial tool with which to classify racialized women and nations as suspicious, threatening Others in order to justify various forms of violence. Addressing the history of the construction of genital "ambiguity" underscores the fact that race and nation play a significant role in determining which body-minds are labelled sexually "ambiguous" or disorder, where the spectre supposedly haunts, and how citizenship statuses and nations are admonished (Magubane 2014). This history reveals how various forms of oppression literally and symbolically converge on and shape certain people's body-minds and nations. It contextualizes the violence enacted on Semenya--and other Black women athletes--and demonstrates the institutionalized violence that these athletes endured, and continue to endure.
...By exploiting and imposing Western notions of sex, gender, femininity, masculinity, pathology, and DSD, sport sex testing is used as a tool with which to limit, control, and impose sexual citizenship, intersex citizenship, or, if intersex is understood to be a disability, disability citizenship. Analyzing how the phantom is currently imagined to reside in women athletes of colour in colonized nations of the Global South also reveals that sex testing is used as a racist, colonial, imperial tool. And, it must be noted, this violent tool has always been used on already marginalized people: intersex, trans, racialized, queer, and colonized individuals and women. The fact that sex testing needs to be abolished is clear. Doing so would constitute a necessary decolonizing and anti-discriminatory undertaking. I endorse immediately scrapping all sex-testing policies and creating new policies that reject future sex-testing proposals and protect athletes from intersecting forms of discrimination."
