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No longer active. Active 1993-2008
The '''Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) ''' was devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
Founded by [[Cheryl Chase]]. The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) was founded in 1993 in an effort to advocate for patients and families who felt they had been harmed by their experiences with the health care system.
Largely as a result of ISNA’s efforts, there is now widespread acknowledgment among health professionals that the time has come to change how we think about and care for persons with [[DSD]]s. Here are two examples of this shift:
* The National Institutes of Health’s 2006 Strategic Plan for Urology sounded an alarm by describing the clinical management and treatment of DSDs as being “in crisis” due to multiple challenges to the traditional standard of care, and noting “there are insufficient data to guide the clinician and family” in making decisions about medical management.
* In August 2006 a new standard of care was published in ''Pediatrics''! The ''Consensus Statement on Management of Intersex Disorders '' is an important inroad to resolving this crisis, and it incorporates many of the concepts and changes long advocated by ISNA.<ref name="lee2006">{{REFjournal |last=Lee |first=Peter A. |author-link= |last2=Houk |first2=Christopher P. |author2-link= |last3=Ahmed |first3=Faisal |author3-link= |last4= |first4= |author4-link= |last5= |first5= |author5-link= |last6= |first6= |author6-link= |last7= |first7= |author7-link= |last8= |first8= |author8-link= |last9= |first9= |author9-link= |etal=yes |title=Consensus Statement on Management of Intersex Disorders |trans-title= |language=English |journal=Pediatric |location= |date=2006-08 |volume=118 |issue=2 |pages=e488-e500 |url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/2/e488 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=16882788 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1542/peds.2006-0738 |accessdate=2020-06-20}}</ref>
Some of the changes advocated in the Consensus Statement (CS) included:
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* [http://www.isna.orgISNA] * [http://www.accordalliance.org/ Accord Alliance] * [https://interactadvocates.org/ InterAct]
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