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Anne Tamar-Mattis is an American attorney, human rights advocate, and founder of interACT (formerly Advocates for Informed Choice). She currently serves as interACT's Legal Director.

Career

Tamar-Mattis spent six years as the Director of the National Youth Talkline at Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center, a national peer-support line for LGBTQ youth. She became the first Program Director for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in 2001. In 2003, she took a hiatus to attend law school and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2006.

Tamar-Mattis founded interACT with the support of fellowships from Equal Justice Works (2006) and Echoing Green (2008). She has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2008 where she teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law.

Selected bibliography

Tamar-Mattis' selected publications include:

• Tamar-Mattis, A. (August 2014). "Patient advocate responds to DSD surgery debate". Journal of Pediatric Urology. 10 (4): 788–789. doi:10.1016/j.jpurol.2014.03.019. ISSN 1477-5131. PMID 24909610.
• Tamar-Mattis, Anne; Baratz, Arlene; Baratz Dalke, Katharine; Karkazis, Katrina (January 2014). "Emotionally and cognitively informed consent for clinical care for differences of sex development". Psychology and Sexuality. 5 (1): 44–55. doi:10.1080/19419899.2013.831215. ISSN 1941-9899. S2CID 144006437.
• Tamar-Mattis, Anne (2014). "Medical Treatment of People with intersex conditions as Torture and cruel, inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment". Torture in Healthcare Settings: Reflections on the Special Rapporteur on Torture's 2013 Thematic Report. Washington, DC: Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law. pp. 91–104.
• Feder, Ellen K.; Dreger, Alice; Tamar-Mattis, Anne (March 2013). "More Rhetoric Than Argument?". Hastings Center Report. 43 (2): 4–6. doi:10.1002/hast.148. ISSN 0093-0334. PMID 23494692.
• Tamar-Mattis, Anne (October 30, 2012). "The Dex Diaries, Part 9: The Real Silent Majority". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
• Dreger, Alice; Feder, Ellen K.; Tamar-Mattis, Anne (September 2012). "Prenatal Dexamethasone for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: An Ethics Canary in the Modern Medical Mine". Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 9 (3): 277–294. doi:10.1007/s11673-012-9384-9. ISSN 1176-7529. PMC 3416978. PMID 22904609.
• Tamar-Mattis, Anne (April 19, 2012). "Sterilization and Minors with Intersex Conditions in California Law". California Law Review. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
• Tamar-Mattis, Anne (February 2011). "DSD and genital surgery: Are caregivers failing the 'thank you' test?". Endocrine Today.
• Karkazis, Katrina; Tamar-Mattis, Anne; Kon, Alexander A. (August 2010). "Genital surgery for disorders of sex development: implementing a shared decision-making approach". Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism. 23 (8): 789–805. doi:10.1515/jpem.2010.129. ISSN 0334-018X. PMID 21073122. S2CID 2671659.
• Dreger, Alice; Feder, Ellen K; Tamar-Mattis, Anne (June 2010), Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum
• Tamar-Mattis, A. (2006). "Exceptions to the Rule: Curing the Law's Failure to Protect Intersex Infants". Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. 21 (1): 59–110.

Awards and recognition

In 2010, Anne Tamar-Mattis was recognized as an "unsung hero" by KQED Inc.. 2011 saw her elected to the American Law Institute, and in 2012 Anne was awarded the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women.

Honours

In 2022, interACT awarded the Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award to American physician Arlene Baratz for being "an outstanding medical ally in the U.S. intersex movement and a parent of two intersex children".

Personal life

Tamar-Mattis lives with her partner, intersex activist and physician, Suegee Tamar-Mattis. In 2012, they both appeared in the documentary film, Intersexion. They are parents of two children.

References

1. "Children with Intersex Conditions: An Interview with Anne Tamar-Mattis". Lavender Magazine. 2008-06-05. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01.
2. "Mission and History". interACT. 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
3. "Advocates for Informed Choice Blog". 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014.
4. "Advocates for Informed Choice". Archived from the original on 2013-06-03.
5. Anne Tamar-Mattis: Grounded in Community and Light on Her Feet Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Echoing Green, December 5, 2013
6. ^ "Who we Are: Anne Tamar-Mattis". Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth. Archived from the original on 2013-06-03.
7. "Anne Tamar-Mattis | Equal Justice Works". Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
8. Anne Tamar-Mattis | Echoing Green
9. "Anne Tamar-Mattis: Founder & Executive Director". Advocates for Informed Choice. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
10. Against the Grain - March 5, 2012 at 12:00pm | KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley: Listener Sponsored Free Speech Radio
11. ^ "2012 Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women: Anne Tamar-Mattis". Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice. Berkeley Women's Law Journal. 22 February 2012. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
12. Berkeley Law - News Archive Archived March 16, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
13. "2010 LGBT Heroes". KQED. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
14. "Member Directory". American Law Institute. Archived from the original on 14 November 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
15. "Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award Archives". interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
16. Tamar-Mattis, Suegee (November 2023). "Suegee Tamar-Mattis' Profile on LinkedIn".

External links

• Website of interACT

• Intersex rights activists
• Living people
• UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
• UC Berkeley School of Law faculty
• Intersex rights in the United States