Lambda Legal today announced Ford Foundation Fellow Caroline Sacerdote has joined its legal team, working out of the organization’s headquarters office in New York City.
Today, Lambda Legal announced that Simone Bell, former Georgia State Representative and Lambda Legal Community Educator, has returned to its Southern Regional Office in Atlanta as Regional Director.
Lambda Legal today filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on behalf of an intersex client, Dana Zzyym, denied a U.S. passport because Dana could not accurately choose either male or female on the passport application form, and the form does not provide any other gender marker designation.
Intersex is an umbrella term used to describe a wide range of natural bodily variations. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of bodies designated “male” or “female.” In some cases, intersex traits are visible at birth, while in others they are not apparent until puberty. Some intersex variations may not be visibly apparent at all.