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|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html|accessdate=2007-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407111833/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> and ''New York Magazine''.<ref name=Solomon>{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Andrew|title=The Autism Rights Movement|date=2008-05-25|work=New York Magazine |url=https://www.nymag.com/news/features/47225/ |accessdate=2008-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704174810/https://nymag.com/news/features/47225/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html|accessdate=2007-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407111833/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/health/20autism.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> and ''New York Magazine''.<ref name=Solomon>{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Andrew|title=The Autism Rights Movement|date=2008-05-25|work=New York Magazine |url=https://www.nymag.com/news/features/47225/ |accessdate=2008-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230704174810/https://nymag.com/news/features/47225/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>


Sinclair established and ran Autreat, the first independent autistic-run gathering,<ref>Ne'eman, Ari. "The Neurodiversity Movement." ''Disability'': ''A Reference Handbook'', by Michael Rembis, ABC-CLIO, 2019, pp. 99-104. Contemporary World Issues. ''Gale eBooks'', https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX7901900016/GVRL?u=sain79627&sid=GVRL&xid=186bb814.</ref> for fifteen years after attending conferences that mainly included parents of autistic children and professionals. They and other autistic adults described these conferences as isolating and dehumanizing. Autreat explicitly prioritizes autistic needs, with programs like an "Ask a Neurotypical" panel.<ref>{{Citation|last=Pripas-Kapit|first=Sarah|title=Historicizing Jim Sinclair's "Don't Mourn for Us": A Cultural and Intellectual History of Neurodiversity's First Manifesto|date=2020|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2|work=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline|pages=23–39|editor-last=Kapp|editor-first=Steven K.|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2|isbn=978-981-13-8437-0|access-date=2020-02-04|doi-access=free}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20230608174450/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
Sinclair established and ran Autreat, the first independent autistic-run gathering,<ref>Ne'eman, Ari. "The Neurodiversity Movement." ''Disability'': ''A Reference Handbook'', by Michael Rembis, ABC-CLIO, 2019, pp. 99-104. Contemporary World Issues. ''Gale eBooks'', https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX7901900016/GVRL?u=sain79627&sid=GVRL&xid=186bb814.</ref> for fifteen years after attending conferences that mainly included parents of autistic children and professionals. They and other autistic adults described these conferences as isolating and dehumanizing. Autreat explicitly prioritizes autistic needs, with programs like an "Ask a Neurotypical" panel.<ref>{{Citation|last=Pripas-Kapit|first=Sarah|title=Historicizing Jim Sinclair's "Don't Mourn for Us": A Cultural and Intellectual History of Neurodiversity's First Manifesto|date=2020|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2|work=Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories from the Frontline|pages=23–39|editor-last=Kapp|editor-first=Steven K.|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2|isbn=978-981-13-8437-0|access-date=2020-02-04|doi-access=free|archive-date=2023-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608174450/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8437-0_2|url-status=bot: unknown}} on 17 July 2023</ref>


Jim is also [[intersex]] and was subjected as a child to [[conversion therapy]] in attempts to make them conform to their [[assigned gender]]. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly [[neuter]], both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref>
Jim is also [[intersex]] and was subjected as a child to [[conversion therapy]] in attempts to make them conform to their [[assigned gender]]. In 1997 Jim wrote that they were "proudly [[neuter]], both physically and socially."<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207013228/http:/web.syr.edu:80/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|url=http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/brief_bio.htm|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=Self-introduction to the Intersex Society of North America|last=Sinclair|first=Jim|date=1997}}</ref>