Statement on Executive Order 14166 As an organization that is run by and provides community support to intersex individuals and their families, InterConnect recognizes attempts to conflate human sex variation and binary understandings of gender, including the recently issued Executive Order 14166, as scientifically inaccurate, discriminatory, and broadly harmful. As a community of intersex individuals and family members of intersex individuals, including medical and scientific experts, we fundamentally refute these misleading, scientifically inaccurate claims about sex and gender. Executive Order 14166 makes multiple biologically false claims, including statements about human sex being determined by gamete production at conception. In reality, developmental processes that create gonadal tissue needed to produce ova and sperm do not begin until 6-7 weeks after conception. Defining and assessing sex by the presence of reproductive cells is impractical and disregards the live...