On October 26, 1996 in Boston, Beck participated in the first known public demonstration against human rights violations on intersex people.
[2] In that year, he and Morgan Holmes acted as spokespersons for ISNA and participants in a demonstration outside the conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics on October 26, 1996 alongside allies from Transsexual Menace including Riki Wilchins.
She states that the pair went to deliver an address, "on long-term outcomes and to challenging their still-prevailing opinion that cosmetic surgery to "fix" intersexed genitals was the best course of action", but were "met, officially, with hostility and were escorted out of the conference by security guards".
[8][9] Following the event, the Academy published a press release stating that "From the viewpoint of emotional development, 6 weeks to 15 months seems the optimal period for genital surgery.
[11][12] In response to his death, Cheryl Chase stated that clinicians were unable to understand the "health issues of someone with his condition".