What does ISNA recommend for children with intersex?
After years of consultation with people with intersex conditions, their parents, their healthcare providers, and others, the following “Patient-Centered Model”:/compare is what ISNA recommends. * Children with intersex, parents of those children, and adults with intersex should be treated in an open, shame-free, supportive, and honest way. They should consistently be told the truth (this includes providers being honest about uncertainty), and should be given copies of medical records as soon and as often as they ask for them. * Children and adults with intersex, and their family members, should be provided with access to trained psychologists and social workers, especially when they are in distress (as some parents of newborns with intersex are). Parental distress should not be treated with “normalizing” surgery on children, nor should surgeons, endocrinologists, and other non-psycho-social specialists attempt to cover family’s counseling needs. * Care providers should also attempt to
