[3][4] The forum brought together 14 people from Hong Kong (China), India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

[3] Notable representatives and spokespeople include Jeff Cagandahan, Hiker Chiu, Esan Regmi,[5] Small Luk and Gopi Shankar Madurai.

[7] Intersex Asia aims to promote and protect the human rights of intersex people in Asia, including rights to bodily integrity,[8] physical autonomy and self determination, and it also aims to provide a representative voice.

[3] In a founding statement the organization identifies key issues including "discrimination, violence and killings of intersex people by a number of cultural, religious, traditional and medical beliefs and practices".

[1][11][12] Amongst its activities, Intersex Asia has published translations of information on key issues and human rights by United Nations Free & Equal into Asian languages including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and Vietnamese.