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The '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' (ICGI) was an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the normal anatomy of males, females and the intersexedintersex, and was a supporter of the [[Genital Integrity Resolution]]. ICGI was formed to coalesce the many [[Intactivists|activist organizations]], each with a specific focus, into one, common voice. Added ICGI was an organizational member coalition funded by private donations. The membership included organizations devoted to them are organizations stopping male, female, and companies intersex genital cutting who also agree all agreed that every human has a right to a whole and [[intact ]] body. Organizational members include healthcare professionals ICCG's initial program was the dissemination of press releases for its membership. Originally, psychologiststhis was accomplished via a FAX-tree system of volunteers. This was replaced with email blast software. Online press release services permitted greater market penetration. Eventually, researchersthe member organizations began issuing their own press releases and the program was closed. Nearly 200 press releases were issued by ICGI. Defunding Medicaid reimbursement at the state level was a major project for ICGI. By 1985, six states voluntarily defunded newborn circumcision from Medicaid: California, attorneysMississippi, journalistsNevada, ethicistsNorth Dakota, academiciansWashington, and citizen activists dedicated Oregon. The Medicaid Project was responsible for defunding 11 more states: Arizona, Missouri, Utah, North Carolina, Montana, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maine, and Minnesota during the 2002 to ending unnecessary genital cutting2005 timeframe.<ref name=" ICGI about">{{REFweb |url=http://webwas the first intactivist organization to use a newsfeed, what people now call a blog (weblog).archive.org/web/20170725024841/http:/The syndicated newsfeed was hand coded using the RSS/www.icgiXML protocol.org/about/ |title=ICGI: About |archived=yes |date=2017-07-25 |accessdate=2021-05-24}}</ref>
ICGI was a member of CRIN, [https://home.crin.org/ Child Rights Information Network(CRIN)]. ICGI was funded by donations from volunteers and private sources. The did not charge for membership.<ref name="ICGI about"/>
From its founding in 4/7/1999, [[Rio Cruz]] was the director. [[Dan Bollinger]] was became the directorin 4/22/2003 until its closing in 7/14/2015.
== Goals ==
* Invite philosophically compatible, but unaffiliated organizations, to join with them in protecting non-consenting humans from forced genital mutilations.
* Create and disseminate educational information and teaching/learning opportunities for raising consciousness about the forced genital mutilations of minors or others through collective press releases, symposia, letter writing campaigns, tv, radio, Internet programs etc.
* Pursue vigorously, through their legal representatives and the courts, [[human rights]] violations involving [[genital mutilation]].<ref name="ICGI about"/>
== Recent activities ==
The ICGI.org website is [[url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170725024841/http://www.icgi.org/about/|archived]]. As of January 2021, the former website domain has been reactivated and currently fills with new unrelated contents.
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