Giving Tuesday - AM

Subject Line: We Keep Showing Up.
Preview Text: Today and Every Day.

Dear [Name],

It’s Giving Tuesday! A day rooted in generosity and showing up for what matters most, and sheesh, do we need those things now more than ever.

Today, interACT is launching our 2025 End-of-Year campaign:

✨ We Keep Showing Up—Together. ✨

Because every time the world tells intersex people to shrink, hide, or disappear, we show up—through advocacy, community, storytelling, and truth.

We show up because intersex young people are leading, creating, challenging harmful systems, and making space for themselves and each other. This campaign is a celebration of the ongoing courage and vision of intersex people.

⭐ A year of showing up—together

In 2025, we have:

  • Developed a new Self-Advocacy Toolkit to help intersex people prepare for healthcare visits, communicate their needs, and advocate for safe, respectful, and compassionate care. 

  • Grown interSpace, our online peer support group for intersex youth, to over 200 members!

  • Gave dozens of talks where we shared intersex-inclusive education to 2,000 medical students, doctors, congressional leaders, allies, and youth.

This work—and the community that sustains it—continues to push the intersex movement forward.

A growing movement, a growing need

As attempts to silence, legislate, and erase intersex lives continue, the movement is expanding in response. interACT’s $100,000 year-end goal reflects the scale of youth leadership, community care, and national advocacy needed right now.

Within that, there is a $25,000 grassroots goal, shaped by many collective gifts coming together to support intersex joy and justice.

Giving Tuesday is one moment to nurture that momentum.

Will you make a Giving Tuesday gift today to help us continue this vital work?

[Make Your Giving Tuesday Gift]

Each contribution supports intersex youth leadership, justice-centered advocacy, and the joyful visibility that continues to shift culture and systems.

Thank you for standing with intersex youth—today and every day.

With deep gratitude,
The interACT Team

interACT | End-of-Year Email + Social Copy

Giving Tuesday - PM

Subject Option: Collective Power Is How We Win
Preview Text: Together, we’re building the future intersex people deserve.


Dear [Name],

On Giving Tuesday, we’re returning to one of the core truths of our movement:

✨ Collective Power Is How We Win. ✨ 

This year, our collective power was on full display at World Pride—where interACT youth marched, connected, and educated hundreds of people from around the world.

It was, as far as we know, the first time an intersex group has ever marched in World Pride, and a historic moment of visibility, belonging, and community connection.

At our booth, interACT youth led a creative and joyful approach to education: a colorful spinning wheel where visitors answered questions about intersex people.

One by one, people stepped up to:

  • share what they knew

  • learn what they didn’t

  • speak openly about topics many had never discussed before (gonads can be hard to chat about with strangers!)

  • celebrate intersex pride through pins, stickers, and stories

Hundreds of people visited the booth—allies, medical professionals, activists, and intersex people encountering community for the first time.

Visibility wasn’t just something we offered; it was something we built together. For Nessa, one of our youth advocates volunteering for the first time, it became an unforgettable moment of community. They shared:

“To connect with the broader LGBTQ community, to educate people who might have never heard the term ‘intersex’ before or know about the unique needs of intersex people, and to tell other intersex people who’d never engaged with their community before, ‘Hey, we’re here, you’re not alone, you can find support with us,’ was amazing. I got to connect interACT with medical professionals, allies, and aspiring activists at World Pride, and I think public face-to-face opportunities are so important! I hope I get the chance to volunteer at more Pride events in the future.”

Intersex people are still erased from public narratives, targeted by harmful policies, and misrepresented in medicine, media, and education. But moments like World Pride show what becomes possible when young intersex people lead, and the community stands together.

This is how movements grow.
This is how systems change.

To move this work into 2026 with strength, interACT is working toward a $100,000 year-end goal, including a $25,000 grassroots goal shaped through many people giving what is meaningful for them.

If the power of showing up—together—resonates with you, there’s still time to be part of today’s Giving Tuesday effort!

[Make Your Giving Tuesday Gift]

Your participation tonight supports the youth leadership, community care, and public education that keep intersex visibility growing and intersex voices centered.

Thank you for being part of a movement rooted in connection, courage, and collective power.

With gratitude,
The interACT Team

12/11 - Care Is a Form of Resistance

Subject Line: “interSpace gave me a community when I had none.”
Preview Text: Join us in sustaining community spaces that save lives.

Dear [Name],

For intersex youth, community is not just meaningful—it is lifesaving.

This year, interACT expanded two powerful spaces of connection that pushed back against the isolation so many intersex young people experience: our second Youth Healing & Wellness Retreat and our rapidly growing online peer-support community, interSpace. 

These communities were built for young people who often grow up without peers and without support—and for whom connection is nothing short of radical. At the retreat, many youth met another intersex person for the first time in their lives. They rested together, laughed together, healed together, and practiced what it feels like to show up as their whole selves. 

interSpace extends that connection year-round. Young people tell us again and again that finding community through interSpace changes how they see themselves—and what they believe is possible for their futures.

Here’s what youth told us this year:

“interSpace gave me a community when I had none. I no longer feel the intense isolation that often comes with being intersex.”

“Being in the interSpace server made me feel more connected and comfortable with my identity… I didn’t realize how much I needed a space like that until I joined.”

“interACT is a lifesaving organization for intersex young people who might otherwise grow up without any intersex community.”

One young person summed it up with the ultimate Gen Z endorsement:

“It’s so sigma!”

interSpace and the Healing and Wellness Retreat reflect a core truth: Collective care transforms everything.

It transforms isolation into belonging.
Shame into pride.
Fear into possibility.
And individual struggle into collective power.

This is the heart of the intersex movement: we show up for one another, again and again.

And today, we’re asking you to show up too.

Your gift—at any size—helps intersex youth find community, safety, joy, and pride. Nearly half of our donors give under $100, and 81% give under $500. Every contribution strengthens the collective care that keeps this movement alive and gets us closer to our end-of-year goal of $100,000.

[GIVE]

Thank you for being part of this community.

With gratitude,
The interACT Team

12/11 social copy

“interSpace gave me a community when I had none.”

For intersex youth, community isn’t just meaningful—it’s lifesaving. This year, interACT’s Youth Healing & Wellness Retreat and our interSpace peer-support group helped young people feel connection, pride, and belonging—sometimes for the very first time.

Young people tell us again and again how community transforms what they believe is possible for their futures:

“I didn’t realize how much I needed a space like this until I joined.”
“I finally feel connected to my intersex identity.”
“interACT is lifesaving.”

And yes, one youth called it: “So sigma.”

These spaces reflect a core truth: Collective care transforms everything.

Isolation → belonging
Shame → pride
Fear → possibility
Individual struggle → collective power

This is the heart of the intersex movement: We keep showing up for one another.

And today, we’re asking you to show up too. Every gift strengthens the collective care that keeps this movement alive. Donate today to support the care and community that save lives. Link in bio.

12/16 - Knowledge Is Power

Subject: Advocating for yourself shouldn’t be this hard
Preview: How intersex-led tools are changing medical experiences.

Dear [Name], 

As our We Keep Showing Up series continues, today we’re highlighting a core truth at the heart of intersex justice:

💫 Knowledge is power 💫 

For many intersex people, advocating for ourselves in healthcare settings is an exhausting and often unfair burden. We are asked, in just one appointment, to explain our anatomy and variation, describe past procedures, articulate sensitive boundaries, navigate misunderstandings about gender, and communicate needs that many providers are not yet trained to recognize.

These challenges aren’t the result of individual shortcomings—they reflect structural gaps in medical education, cultural stigma, and decades of silence around intersex experiences.

This is why interACT’s work to create tools that expand knowledge and support autonomy is so essential. One example is the Patient Self-Advocacy Toolkit released earlier this year. It reflects the collective insight of intersex people, researchers, and affirming healthcare professionals who came together to strengthen communication between patients and providers.

The toolkit helps people prepare for appointments, express boundaries, ask informed questions, and advocate for safe, respectful care. It also helps providers understand the lived experiences of intersex people and the changes needed to make healthcare more compassionate and equitable.

"InterACT's Patient Self-Advocacy Toolkit is the resource I wish I had when I treated my first patient with a difference of sex differentiation. Medical school in no way prepared me for the medical, psychosocial, and ethical complexities of intersex care, and it is safe to say that I didn't know what I didn't know. This toolkit will be invaluable for intersex patients to communicate their unique needs to their providers." - Dr. Wong, general urologist, interACT board member, and young adult author

This resource embodies what it means for interACT to keep showing up: we meet systemic problems with community knowledge, shared truth, and tools that return power to intersex people.

Your support makes work like this possible. Every gift strengthens the collective care and knowledge-building that fuel intersex justice and help us move toward our $100,000 year-end goal.

[GIVE]

Donate today to help intersex people access the knowledge and autonomy they deserve.

With gratitude,

With gratitude,
The interACT Team

12/16 social copy

interACT created a Self-Advocacy Toolkit because being intersex shouldn’t mean giving a whole TED Talk at every doctor’s appointment 😭

It’s free.
It’s accessible.
It’s built by intersex people + affirming providers who actually listen.
It’s a “here’s what I actually need from you” guide for navigating medical care.

interACT board member and general urologist Dr. Wong said it best:

“Medical school in no way prepared me for the medical, psychosocial, and ethical complexities of intersex care… this toolkit will be invaluable.”

Tools like this exist because intersex people lead—and because our community shows up to support that leadership.

When you give to interACT, you’re funding:
✨ more intersex-led tools and resources
✨ more ways for people to advocate for safe, respectful care
✨ more provider education
✨ more power + autonomy in medical settings

You’re helping intersex people walk into appointments with knowledge, confidence, and the language they need to protect their care.

Can you support our End of Year Campaign and help us create even more tools that put power back in intersex hands?

No matter the size, every single gift fuels this work.

Help us create more tools that put power back in intersex hands. Link in bio to give.

12/18 - Nothing About Us Without Us

Dear [Name],

Today, we honor a truth that has shaped every milestone in the intersex movement:

Intersex people lead the way.

For decades, intersex people have been spoken about, studied, and pathologized—while rarely being invited to lead the conversations that determine our care, our stories, and our futures. “Nothing About Us Without Us” is more than a slogan. It is a corrective to history, and a blueprint for justice.

Few people embody this more than Dr. Coons, an internal medicine hospitalist, researcher, and advocate who collaborates with interACT to transform the future of intersex healthcare.

When we asked Dr. Coons what “Nothing About Us Without Us” means to her, she told us:

“Fixing the relationship between healthcare and intersex individuals starts by listening. Improving care involves everyone, but especially means caring for the individual and seeing them on their own terms. We need our voices to change the medical system, and I could no longer sit idle. I wanted to help be the change.”

Her journey into this work began when she noticed that medical literature listed wildly different numbers of “known variations”—36, 60, or more—with no comprehensive foundation. So she built one. After reaching out to interACT about our variations glossary, a partnership blossomed into the Sex Divergence Database, an unprecedented effort to create shared language that decreases barriers to care, enhances research, and strengthens communication across medical systems.

Dr. Coons also joined Healthcare Professionals Organize for Intersex Justice (HPO4IJ)—interACT’s community for clinicians and medical students committed to intersex-affirming care. There, collaboration, listening, and community push her forward. She told us:

“I realized how much I had to learn. interACT and HPO4IJ gave me the ability to listen, learn, and engage—and they inspire me to do more.”

interACT ensures intersex people guide the knowledge, tools, and systems that shape their care. Dr. Coons’ work is one shining example of this truth in action. And, as she shared, “We are only scratching the surface of how much the medical system still has to learn.”

Your support makes this leadership possible. Every brings us closer to our $100,000 year-end goal.

Donate today to support intersex-led change.

[Donate Today]

With gratitude,
The interACT Team

12/18 social copy

Nothing About Us Without Us isn’t a slogan—it’s how change happens.

For too long, intersex people have been spoken about instead of listened to. Today, we’re honoring intersex-led leadership in healthcare and beyond, including the work of Dr. Coons and her collaboration with interACT to transform how care is shaped, researched, and delivered.

As the year comes to a close, your support helps ensure intersex people continue to lead the way. Nearly half of our donors give under $100—every gift moves this work forward.

Give before year’s end to support intersex-led change.

12/30 - Culture Changes Everything

Subject:  Intersex Stories Matter
Preheader: Now more than ever.

Dear [Name],

So much of our work begins with visibility.

When intersex youth are seen, heard, and believed—everything becomes possible. Culture shifts. Conversations change. The future is brighter.

This year, interACT met a critical moment. As lawmakers advanced sex-based legislation and federal actions sharpened public debate, intersex people were named, quoted, and included in the conversation—often for the first time.

In just two weeks, our team worked with more than 20 reporters. Over the course of the year, intersex voices appeared in more than 30 articles across major outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Reporters are increasingly including intersex people in coverage of sex, bodies, and autonomy because interACT is doing the long-haul work of media education, relationship-building, and narrative change.

This is an explicit part of our mission: to raise awareness and shift media conversations so the public understands that sex is not a strict binary—and that intersex people exist, belong, and deserve bodily autonomy.

At the heart of this work are intersex youth.

This year, young people shared their stories with growing confidence and care, supported by interACT’s media and online safety trainings. Youth are choosing what to share, how to share it, and when—building connection, pride, and power along the way. The response is always profound.

After reading an interACT Youth Cohort member’s story, one young person shared:

“I love hearing the stories of fellow intersex people because it inspires me to be proud of being intersex and to be bold in speaking up for our rights and liberation. When I first discovered I was intersex, it was a huge shock. Then I felt peace, joy, relief, and an overwhelming happiness. I have found my people.”

Another simply said, “I feel so seen.” And being seen is where change begins.

Most of the support that fuels interACT comes from everyday people giving what they can. In fact, 81% of our donors give under $500, and nearly half give under $100. Every gift—of any size—moves us closer to our year-end goal and strengthens this community-powered movement.

As we close out the year, thank you for believing in intersex youth, in culture change, and in a future shaped by real stories and real people.

If you’re able, we invite you to make a year-end gift today and help carry this work forward.

[GIVE TODAY]

With gratitude and solidarity,
The interACT Team

12/30 social copy

Intersex stories matter—and this year, they were heard! ✨

Intersex people were named, quoted, and included in major outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Reporters are increasingly including intersex people in coverage of sex, bodies, and autonomy because interACT is doing the long-haul work of media education, relationship-building, and narrative change.

This is explicit in our mission: to raise awareness and shift media conversations so the public understands that sex is not a strict binary—and that intersex people exist, belong, and deserve bodily autonomy.

As we close out 2025, we invite you to support this ongoing narrative change work by donating at the link in our bio.

1/6 - Thank You from Executive Director

Subject: With Gratitude—We Keep Showing Up
Preheader: Because of you, intersex-led advocacy, care, and community continue to grow.

Dear [Name],

As we move into a new year, I want to take a moment to say thank you.

Because of you, our community came together to raise $[TOTAL RAISED] in support of intersex-led advocacy, education, and community connection. That number represents far more than dollars. It represents people choosing to show up for intersex youth, for truth-telling, and for a future rooted in care and autonomy.

We don’t know what 2026 will bring. The landscape ahead is complex, and many of the challenges facing intersex people are deeply entrenched. But what we do know is this: we keep showing up.

We show up with joy—because joy sustains us.
We show up with care—because how we move matters.
And we show up with collective power—because movements are built together.

Your support makes it possible for intersex youth to share their stories safely and on their own terms, to access resources that build autonomy, and to see themselves reflected in media, policy conversations, and public life. It ensures intersex people guide the narratives, tools, and systems shaping their lives—and it strengthens a movement that continues to show up.

I am deeply grateful to be in this work with you. Thank you for believing in intersex-led change, for standing with our community, and for helping keep the intersex movement alive.

With gratitude and solidarity,
Erika Lorshbough, Executive Director