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Max Beck (left) of ISNA pickets American Academy of Pediatrics (1996). (Photo: ISNA)

The Intersex Society of North America is founded.

Date: 1993

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Max Beck (left) of ISNA pickets American Academy of Pediatrics (1996). (Photo: ISNA)

According to their website: "The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is 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."