Staying informed is crucial for any community, and the intersex community is no exception. This section keeps you up-to-date on the latest advancements, legal battles, and advocacy efforts impacting intersex lives around the world.
Europe
October 1, 2025
Many intersex people in Europe are still subjected to conversion practices. Around one-third of intersex people in Europe (34%) reported having been physically or sexually assaulted in the five years before the survey was conducted, which is a sharp increase from 2019 (22%). This rate is three times higher than the figure for LGBTIQ people overall. The highest levels of violent experiences were reported by respondents in Austria (45%), Spain (42%), and Ireland (41%). On the opposite side of the spectrum sit Finland (28%) and Czechia (25%), which report the lowest.
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October 7, 2025
Council of Europe approves ‘comprehensive’ intersex rights framework. The Council of Europe on Tuesday approved a “comprehensive framework” designed to protect the rights of intersex people. The European LGBTQ and intersex rights group, along with Organization Intersex International Europe, note the recommendation “covers a comprehensive range of topics for the advancement and protection of intersex rights, from the prohibition of non-consensual interventions and treatments, access to justice, redress and monitoring mechanisms, tackling hate crime and hate speech, prohibiting discrimination in the areas of education, employment and sport.”
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October 17, 2025
Greece Introduces First Intersex Character on TV in Historic Milestone. The acclaimed drama Serres, written by beloved Greek screenwriter, actor, and presenter Giorgos Kapoutzidis, made history by introducing the first intersex character ever to appear on Greek television. It also marks the first time the word “intersex” has been spoken in a Greek TV production — a groundbreaking moment that sparked thousands of posts, headlines, and conversations across the country.
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October 1, 2025
Intersex people in Europe face ‘alarming’ rise in violence, EU finds. The findings from the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights found that since 2019, the rates of violence and harassment against intersex people have sharply increased – particularly among those who identify as trans, non-binary and gender diverse – far outpacing the increases reported by others in the LGBTQ+ community. One in three surveyed, 34%, said they had been physically or sexually assaulted in the five years prior to the survey, up from 22% in 2019. Between 2019 and 2023, the rate of reported hate-motivated harassment had almost doubled, from 42% to 74%.
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November 6, 2025
Official launch of the Recommendation on equal rights for intersex persons. The Secretary General Alain Berset highlighted that the Recommendation did not create new standards, but made it impossible to ignore existing ones. Director of Intersex International Europe Dan Christian Ghattas supported the Recommendation as establishing a new gold standard in Europe. Adopted unanimously on 7 October in Valletta, the Recommendation provides clear guidance to governments in making laws and policies that prohibit non-consensual medical interventions and ensuring that any interventions on intersex children are postponed until they can decide for themselves. It also calls for the provision of equitable access to healthcare and the protection of intersex persons from violence, discrimination and exclusion.
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November 11, 2025
IOC Moves Toward Ban on Transgender and Intersex Women in Olympic Events. The new policy, if approved, would not only exclude transgender women but also cover DSD athletes, those who were assigned female at birth but have XY chromosomes and naturally higher testosterone levels. That inclusion would impact athletes such as Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics after facing disqualification from the 2023 World Championships over gender eligibility disputes. Khelif, who has always identified as female, has not been accused of being transgender.
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Australia
November 7, 2025
Intersex Support Service ‘InterLink’ Has Received Three-Year Accreditation Status. InterLink, a community-controlled intersex psychosocial support service operated by InterAction for Health and Human Rights, has been officially accredited for the next three years by the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards. The service, which operates online and is free to access across Australia and New Zealand, offers individual counselling, peer navigation and group programs designed specifically for people with IVSCs.
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December 1, 2025
Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children. Victoria will become the first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgeries on intersex children, with legislation to be introduced to parliament to ensure procedures are deferred until patients are old enough to consent to them. The health minister, Mary-Anne Thomas, introduced the health safeguards for people born with variations in sex characteristics bill, which if passed would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures and treatments on intersex infants and children until they can provide informed consent.
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December 1, 2025
62% of surgeries on intersex children are due to parent confusion. A new report released, The Missing Voice, has provided insight into current surgical and other medical interventions on intersex children in Australia. This includes the rationales driving the decisions for medical intervention. “Our report shows that intersex children born today remain at risk of medical procedures that could be delayed or avoided altogether if stronger oversight and support were in place. We can and must do better,” said Equality Australia Legal Director Heather Corkhill.
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Africa
October 8, 2025
Bridging the Legal Gap: Advancing Transgender and Intersex Rights in Mozambique. A National Workshop on Coordinated Strategies for Legal Recognition and Protection was convened 28 of August in Maputo. The event brought together representatives from government, civil society, development partners, and the justice sector to jointly assess challenges and identify pathways for legal recognition and protection of transgender and intersex persons.
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October 1, 2025
Landmark lawsuit challenges state discrimination against intersex persons. In a historic first for Zimbabwe, intersex individuals have taken the government to the High Court, demanding legal recognition of their rights and protection against decades of systemic exclusion. The application, filed under case number HCH4743/25, seeks a declaratory order to compel the state to officially recognize intersex people as a distinct legal category under Zimbabwean law. This challenge is foundational, aiming to rectify administrative failures that have perpetuated harm and discrimination.
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October 26, 2025
Intersex community calls for legal recognition, condemns harmful surgeries on newborns. At the 2025 Intersex Awareness Day held on Sunday in Victoria Island, Lagos State, which also marked the launch of the ‘Nigeria Intersex Human Rights Violation Report, Vol. ’, Intersex Nigeria decried the discrimination faced by intersex persons, stressing that intersex identities have existed since time immemorial and are not a recent phenomenon.
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November 20, 2025
Advancing the rights of intersex persons in Africa. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s #WeBelongAfrica programme, in collaboration with the African Intersex Movement (AIM) and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, convened a side event on the margins of the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The event focused on accelerating the implementation of Resolution 552, the first regional human rights resolution dedicated to intersex persons in Africa.
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United State
October 16, 2025
GayVirgin Islands make history by allowing trans & intersex people to change their gender markers Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+). U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. (D) submitted a bill to the legislature last year that would have allowed trans and intersex people in the territory to change the gender marker on their official documents. The measure didn’t advance past a committee hearing.
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October 24, 2025
Rep. Becca Balint and Rep. Mark Takano Introduce Intersex Awareness Day Resolution. Representatives Becca Balint and Mark Takano have introduced a resolution recognizing October 26 as Intersex Awareness Day. The resolution aims to affirm the dignity and bodily autonomy of intersex individuals and commemorates the first public demonstration by intersex people in the U.S. in 1996.
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October 27, 2025
Boston Recognizes Intersex Awareness Day. The Council has officially recognized October 26, 2025, as Intersex Awareness Day, marking an important moment in the city’s ongoing commitment to equity, bodily autonomy, and human rights.
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October 31, 2025
Angel City FC captain Sarah Gorden support trans and intersex players. Angel City Football Club captain Sarah Gorden and vice captain Angelina Anderson have made one of the strongest statements from female athletes to support trans and intersex athletes in professional women’s sports.
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November 6, 2025
DHS Wants to Make Some Immigrants and Visitors Take a DNA Sex Test. A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric surveillance program—which also includes retinal scans, voice capture, and more. In addition to the obvious human rights violations, it would put a target on the back of trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming people, as well as women and trans people of color, citizens and non-citizens alike.
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Canada
October 3, 2025
McGill researchers launch intersex health communication guide. Researchers at McGill’s Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide to help Canadian health-care providers offer more inclusive, respectful and affirming care to intersex adults. Co-written with Intersex Canada and developed in close collaboration with the intersex community, Towards Affirmative Intersex Health Communication in Canada is meant to address barriers in health care faced by people born with variations in physical sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. These barriers range from stigma and discrimination to gaps in access and communication.
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Ireland
October 24, 2025
New transgender and intersex sports inclusion guide launched in Ireland. The Transgender & Intersex Sports Inclusion Policy Guide comes in the wake of an uptick in discrimination against trans and intersex people in sports. The topic of sports as a vital source of well-being was discussed. Involvement in sports is not only beneficial for physical health but also for mental health and a sense of belonging, which is crucial to overall individual and community wellness.
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