Intersex Ireland is Ireland’s intersex-led community and advocacy organisation.
We are intersex people speaking for ourselves — sharing our lived experiences, challenging invisibility, and building public understanding of intersex variations.
We advocate for dignity, bodily autonomy, and the full human rights of intersex people. We call for access to accurate information, appropriate and evidence-based healthcare, and meaningful support for intersex people and our families.
Intersex Ireland works to end medically unnecessary, irreversible, and non-consensual interventions carried out on intersex bodies. We challenge harmful medical practices, stigma, and silence, and we promote recognition of intersex variations as natural human diversity rather than pathology.
We are a community grounded in lived experience, solidarity, and care.
We are Intersex Ireland.
Dr Adeline Berry
Founder & Chair
Dr Adeline Berry is a founding member and Chair of Intersex Ireland. She is an intersex activist, academic, and advocate with long-standing experience working on intersex human rights, healthcare ethics, and bodily autonomy. Dr Berry brings both lived experience and professional expertise to her work, and has been a leading voice in challenging non-consensual medical interventions and advancing rights-based, community-led approaches to intersex care and policy in Ireland and internationally.
Sorcha Rosa
Secretary
Sorcha Rosa is an intersex activist and community organiser, and Secretary of Intersex Ireland. She works at the intersection of intersex rights, feminist politics, and health justice, and also serves as Communications and Administration Manager with the European Institute of Women’s Health. Drawing on lived experience as an intersex trans woman, Sorcha’s work focuses on visibility, policy change, and challenging medical and social systems that marginalise intersex people in Ireland and across Europe.
Sarah Haveron
Board Member
Sarah Haveron is an intersex activist and core member of Intersex Ireland. She is a committed advocate for intersex human rights, with a particular focus on community support, visibility, and challenging harmful medical and social practices. Sarah brings lived experience, care, and integrity to her work, and plays a vital role in strengthening intersex-led organising and solidarity in Ireland.
Olive Wilson
Board Member
Olive Wilson is an intersex activist and member of Intersex Ireland. She is a passionate advocate for intersex visibility, dignity, and bodily autonomy, and contributes lived experience and thoughtful insight to the organisation’s work. Olive is committed to challenging stigma and ensuring that intersex voices are central in conversations about healthcare, rights, and equality in Ireland.
Our Commitment to Equality
We champion the rights, dignity, and bodily autonomy of intersex people, working to ensure that intersex voices are centred, respected, and meaningfully included across all areas of society, policy, and healthcare.
Empowering Intersex Voices
Our Commitment to Equality
Intersex Ireland is an intersex-led organisation committed to advancing the human rights, dignity, and bodily autonomy of intersex people across Ireland. Our work is grounded in lived experience and driven by a clear vision: a society where intersex people are recognised as a natural part of human diversity, respected in law, healthcare, education, and public life, and supported to live openly and safely.
We advocate for an end to medically unnecessary and non-consensual interventions on intersex bodies, and for the right of every intersex person to make informed decisions about their own body. Central to our mission is ensuring that intersex voices are heard, valued, and meaningfully included in all decisions that affect our lives.
Intersex Ireland works to raise public awareness of intersex variations and the specific challenges intersex people face, while challenging stigma, misinformation, and erasure. We provide peer support, trusted information, and signposting to intersex people, families, and allies, and we engage directly with healthcare providers, policymakers, educators, and civil society to promote rights-based, inclusive practice.
Community, solidarity, and collective care are at the heart of our organisation. We create spaces for intersex people to connect, share experiences, and build confidence and agency. Together with our allies, we work for structural change — influencing policy, improving healthcare pathways, and building a more just, inclusive Ireland where intersex people can thrive without fear, shame, or discrimination.