Intact America

Intact America

Formation:
2008
Founder:
Georganne Chapin
Founding location:
Tarrytown
Type:
Non-profit corporation
Location:
Tarrytown, New York, USA
Website:
Official website

Intact America (IA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2008. It was originally part of the Hudson Center, but is now its own entity as of 2020. It was founded by Georganne Chapin, MPhil, J.D., a healthcare leader, CEO and intactivist and a group of interested parties including Marilyn Milos and Dan Bollinger. IA's founding was facilitated by Texas businessman Dean Pisani who pledged $1 million to Intact America because he and his wife were pressured in 1999 by a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to circumcise their first child, a boy. The Pisani's rebuffed the doctor's pressure tactics, and in turn funded the creation of IA.

Mission

Intact America fulfills its mission by challenging social and sexual norms and by advocating for the health and well-being of all children and the adults they will become. They do this through creative messaging, advocacy, education, public policy reform, and the empowerment of their supporters, partners and volunteers.

Vision

Intact America envisions a world where children are free from medically unnecessary surgeries carried out on them without their consent in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference.

Intact America is an advocacy organization seeking to end circumcision in America, and to ensure healthy sexual futures for all people.

Intact America (IA) was registered to exhibit at the 2012 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) convention "trade show" in New Orleans, Louisiana. However the AAP revoked Intact America's registration over concerns that IA's presence would exacerbate the controversy over the AAP's recently released 2012 circumcision policy statement (which expired in 2017). IA in turn organized a protest of the AAP which attracted intactivists from across America to demonstrate at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. This seminal event was the place were the intactivist protest group Bloodstained Men was conceived.

The Circumcision Debate is Intact America's entry-level companion website designed for non-intactivists. It is meant to be a source of information on issues about male circumcision.

Intact America has no chapters and is not affiliated with other groups imitating its name [e.g. Intact (geographic name)].

Merger

Genital Autonomy America merged into Intact America, effective 1 July 2021. Marilyn Fayre Milos, R.N., GA-America's director, is now a member of the Board of Directors of Intact America.

Association

Intact America has no state or local chapters and is not associated with any other intactivst organization including those whose name begins with the word 'Intact.' For example: Intact Arizona, Intact Australia, Intact Florida, Intact Denmark, etc.

Publications

• Chapin, Georganne (18 November 2019). Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!', prweb, Intact America. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  Quote: Each year, an estimated 1.4 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the trauma and lifelong consequences of the procedure.
• Bollinger, Dan / Georganne Chapin: Child Genital Cutting as an Adverse Childhood Experience , Intact America (Tarrytown). (1 August 2019). Retrieved 6 April 2021.
• Chapin, Georganne (14 November 2023)."New Survey: Parents Lack Basic Understanding About Circumcision Dangers; 'Skin in the Game' Campaign Launches to Raise Awareness About This Unnecessary Medical Practice", prweb, Intact America. Retrieved 16 December 2023.

External links

• Official website. Retrieved 15 September 2019
• Facebook page. Retrieved 15 September 2019.

Intact America companion websites:

• The Circumcision Debate
• AdverseChildhoodExperiences.net (ACEs)
• Intact.gay