Bio
Elizabeth Gill is a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Northern California and the National ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project.
Featured Work
We Must Stop Forcing Conformity on Intersex Bodies
A core aspect of human autonomy and dignity is to be able to make decisions about our own bodies. But each year, doctors around the country continue to perform medically unnecessary, harmful surgeries on intersex infants and children, just to "normalize" their bodies. What this means is that doctors are forcing infants and young children to undergo medically unnecessary genital surgery simply to force their natural bodies to conform to traditional societal—and binary—views of "male" and "female" bodes.