Materials for meeting with legislators

Sample legislation & handout

Sample Enforcement Bill

This bill amends the state's regulation of professional conduct to make providers who perform non-consensual surgeries on intersex youth subject to state medical board disciplinary action. Find it here.

Sample Resolution

Legislatures use resolutions to uplift causes and values. This resolution highlights the discrimination faced by intersex people, affirms the legislature's support for intersex people, and calls on the health care profession to end non-consensual surgeries on intersex youth. Find it here.

Sample Education Bill

This bill creates a public information and outreach campaign to educate parents and medical professionals about intersex variations and the harms of performing unnecessary surgeries on intersex infants and children. Find it here.

Meeting Handout

This handout gives people a sense of who intersex people are, what non-consensual surgeries on intersex youth are, and why stopping those surgeries is important. Personalize it with quotes, photos, and positive actions taken by medical groups in your state. Find it here.