Theory of Change

We are challenging existing state laws by arguing that they violate constitutional guarantees of equal protection on the basis of sex.

Our strategy relies on the premise that our cultural acquiescence of medically unnecessary genital surgeries on boys and intersex children -- often called "circumcision" and "corrective surgeries" -- violates children's human and legal rights.

Further, our society permitting these types of genital mutilation on children violates the federal and most states' constitutions' guarantee of equal protection under the law on the basis of sex, because the US already outlaws the analogous practice of female genital mutilation.