Anne Tamar-Mattis

Anne Tamar-Mattis is an American attorney, human rights advocate, and founder of interACT (formerly Advocates for Informed Choice).^[1][2] She currently serves as interACT's Legal Director.^[3]

Anne Tamar-Mattis
Nationality	American
Education	Brown University, BA University of California, Berkeley School of Law, JD
Occupation(s)	Attorney, advocate, author
Known for	Intersex advocacy, founder of interACT

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.^[4] She became the first Program Director for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in 2001.^[5][6] 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).^{[7][8][9][10]} She has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2008 where she teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law.^[11][12]

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. Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
• 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.^[13] 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.^[11][14]

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".^[15]

Personal life

Tamar-Mattis lives with her partner, intersex activist and physician, Suegee Tamar-Mattis.^[16] In 2012, they both appeared in the documentary film, Intersexion. They are parents of two children.^[6]