Intersex advocates who joined a City Council hearing on October 28 made impassioned pleas in favor of a bill to establish an educational and outreach campaign directed at doctors and parents of intersex children in the face of widespread medical mistreatment. But even as the de Blasio administration’s health department voiced positive words about the legislation, those officials at the hearing did not offer a direct answer when City Councilmember Helen Rosenthal, who chairs the Committee on Women and Gender Equity, asked whether the administration supports the bill. The legislation would require the city health department to provide doctors and parents of intersex children with educational information and resources that would address medically-unnecessary interventions performed on babies who are intersex, or born with reproductive systems or anatomy unaligned with the standard definition of male and female. The outreach effort would also inform individuals that the medical interventions can be “delayed until the infant is older and can voice thoughts about the procedure.”