Bodily Autonomy and The Legal Implications of Medically Unnecessary Interventions on Intersex Children: The Next Frontier of Conversion Therapy
This meeting is being hosted by the SOGIC Section, in partnership with UBC Allard School of Law Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Inclusive Education, and the UBC Outlaws.
| Speaker(s): |
Alesdair Ittelson, Director of Law & Policy at interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth |
| Time: |
Monday, February 10, 2020 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm (Pacific Time) |
| Location: |
UBC Allard School of Law (Terrace Lounge - 4th Floor), 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, BC |
| Meal Cost: |
N/A |
| CPD Hours: |
1.50 |
For non-CBA members, please RSVP by contacting Dustin Klaudt, BCom, JD at dustin.klaudt@gmail.com.
Speaker Bio
Alesdair Ittelson, Director of Law & Policy at interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. fights for young people who expand societal ideas of what it means to be healthy. As Director of Law & Policy at interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Alesdair and his team work to protect the rights of those born with variations in their sex characteristics, also known as intersex variations.
Alesdair began his career at the LGBT Rights Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. A dedicated civil rights lawyer with over a decade of experience in legal advocacy on behalf of sex and gender-expansive individuals, Alesdair's work on the vanguard of LGBTQI issues includes the first case challenging "conversion therapy" as consumer fraud, representation of transgender youth in educational and institutional settings throughout the Deep South, the first public case on behalf of an intersex person subjected to medically unnecessary "genital normalizing" surgery in infancy, and authoring the first legislation in U.S. history to name the harms of non-consensual medical interventions on intersex people.
Alesdair's legal efforts have been covered nationally and internationally including by the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera, among others. In 2018, Alesdair was named one of the country's Best LGBTQ Lawyers Under 40 by the US National LGBTQ Bar Association.
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