Delia M. Sosa

Delia M. Sosa (born 1997) is a public speaker, healthcare advocate focused on improving healthcare access and equity for transgender, nonbinary, intersex, disabled, and Indigenous communities. They are best known for their successful advocacy campaign to strengthen gender-affirming healthcare protections under the American Medical Association. Sosa describes themself as a queer, trans/nonbinary, intersex, multiracial, and Latine person who uses they/them pronouns.
Early life and education
Sosa was assigned female at birth, but realized they were intersex after discovering their body did not fit into the traditional male or female sex binary.
Career and activism
Sosa describes wanting to provide "culturally sound, nonjudgmental" patient-centered care in response to their own experiences as a patient, when they were "medically gaslit" after failing to be diagnosed with an autoimmune condition due to the provider's bias against their gender identity. Sosa describes this phenomenon as "trans broken arm syndrome." This resolution advocated against legislation criminalizing access to gender-affirming healthcare and supported efforts to oppose discriminatory policies.
Sosa has also provided testimony before legislative bodies on the effects of restricting access to gender-affirming care and has advocated for policies supporting equitable healthcare, such as protecting intersex youth from unnecessary medical procedures.
In addition to advocacy work, Sosa provides educational training for healthcare providers on cultural competence and inclusive practices.<ref name":1" /><ref name":2" />

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