The first public demonstration in North America by intersex people takes place in Boston, Massachusetts on October 26, 1996 when Morgan Holmes, Max Beck, and organizers from the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA), and Transexual Menace demonstrate outside of where the American Academy of Pediatrics is holding its annual conference.
They challenge coercive surgeries of intersex children with creative messaging, including signs that read, "Hermaphrodites With Attitude."
The event is now commemorated as Intersex Awareness Day.