The ongoing battle against trans rights in the US.

More than two-thirds of the bills introduced this year that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth have specific intersex exemptions, allowing doctors to assign minors who are born with secondary sex characteristics as “male” or “female” through surgeries, hormones or other interventions. Intersex surgeries have been condemned by the United Nations for more than a decade as cosmetic, unnecessary and inhumane. The movement to outlaw intersex surgeries in the United States has made big strides in the last three years, but as the intersex rights movement becomes more mainstream, it has also become a target.