We're SLIM, a Strategy Lab for Intersex Movements.

Sean Saifa Wall, PhD (he/him) is a Black queer, trans, intersex activist and rising scholar. He received his PhD as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Huddersfield, examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy sectors in Ireland and England. As an activist, Saifa is committed to racial equity and a radical vision of bodily autonomy for people with intersex variations. He made history by confronting the surgeon on ABC News Nightline who performed his gonadectomy at the age of 13. He is co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project whose #EndIntersexSurgery campaign pressured Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to become the first children’s hospital in the United States to denounce and further investigate genital surgeries on Intersex infants. Above all else, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children.

Hans Lindahl (hans) is a white, anti-Zionist, Jewish intersex femme interested in comics, design, and challenging medicine as the arbiter of social difference. As Communications Director for interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth, Hans’s media and organizing work supported the passage of the first piece of U.S. state legislation to explicitly denounce genital surgeries on intersex infants. As a writer, Hans’s resources promoting community-led, trans-centered frameworks of reproductive anatomy have been translated into four languages, informing curricula at medical schools across North America and beyond. Hans co-organizes an intersex youth retreat series and consults on representations of sex in popular media, working with storytellers at Penguin, HarperCollins, and NPR. Hans’s graphic novel exploring intersex adolescence with illustrator Chan Chau releases in 2027 from Scholastic.

Katherine Dalke, MD (she/her) is a psychiatrist who specializes in the mental health of adolescents and adults who are LGBTQ or have intersex traits. She developed the LGBTQ Clinic at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and co-founded the integrated Gender Health Clinic at the Penn State Health Hershey Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dalke is an assistant professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine, where she also directs the Office for Culturally Responsive Health Care Education. This office focuses on creating curriculum and learning environment that not only prepare learners to provide equitable, responsive care to all patients, and but are also responsive to and inclusive of the experiences of students.

Dr. Dalke has served on the Consensus Committee for the report Understanding the Well-being of LGBTQI+ Populations at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Dalke is a current member of the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office Working Group at the National Institutes of Health and serves on the Intersex Committee in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s standards of care revision process.

Casey Orozco-Poore, MD (they/them) is a queer, non-binary person raised in the Bay Area, California. They graduated from Brown University with a degree in Neurobiology, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School, and are now a UCLA Child Neurology resident physician.

Casey has been active in medical education, research and community advocacy within LGBTQIA+ health at an international level. They completed their medical school thesis on the neurobiological risks of “nerve sparing” clitoral reduction surgeries non-consensually performed on young intersex children diagnosed with CAH, and mobilize this research for shifts in hospital and public health policy. They firmly believe in bodily autonomy, gender affirming and consent-based care for intersex people of all ages. As a UCLA South American Program in HIV Research (SAPHIR) fellow, they have carried out research and material support projects with trans communities in Lima, Peru on the themes of resilience, resistance and solidarity within the arts, activism and mutual aid. They plan to become a child neurologist with a sub-specialty in pain medicine, with an emphasis on affirming neurodiversity and non-carceral models of brain and mind healthcare.

Ly Baumgardt (it/its, auxiliary he/him) is a white, antizionist Jewish intersex activist. It is a cofounder of TIGERRS, a trans, gender expansive and intersex nonprofit based in the Midwest, and is currently their intersex coordinator.

Ly is a teacher, artist, patient advocate, older brother and author of the booklet I think I may be intersex and many half-baked stories about Jewish vampire hunters. As an activist it is focused on Palestinian and disability liberation, resource creation and distribution, and community building.

Noi Liang, MBA, BCPA (she/her) is an intersex woman, patient advocate and educator on intersex variations. She strives to connect intersex people and their families to support and education, help the public understand intersex and related concerns, and advocate with the medical community for improvements in patient care.

Since 2012, Noi has been a patient advocate at Children Hospital Colorado, and a member of the interdisciplinary care team known as the SOAR Clinic. Since 2019, she has served on an Intersex/DSD Task Force at the American Psychological Association (APA), charged with reviewing existing work and making formal recommendations around future psychosocial care and changes to the APA. Noi is also involved with several research projects related to improvements in healthcare.