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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 144-147

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... The 2020 Pennsylvania LGBT Health Needs Assessment,4 a biannual community-based survey using convenience sampling that was conducted in a partnership between the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, included an intersex status question. This question was also based on a simplified version of the first GenIUSS question: "Were you born intersex, or with a variation of sex characteristics or sex development?
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From page 145...
... The panel also valued an intersex status question as one that accurately assesses a person's naturally developed sex variation rather than gender identity, while acknowledging that people with sex variations may also assert intersex as a gender identity (Rosenwohl-Mack et al., 2020)
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From page 146...
... Both options 2 and 3 are modified versions of GenIUSS group recommendations and effectively divide into two parts the questions that were tested in intersex communities. A version of each bifurcation was tested in population-based surveys of the Center for American Progress and Pennsylvania LGBT Health Needs Assessment: while positive responses rates varied substantially in ways that were difficult to assess given differences among the survey populations, nonresponse rates for both questions were low.
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... RECOMMENDATION 7: To improve the quality and inclusivity of current measures of intersex status, the National Institutes of Health should fund and conduct research on the following topics: • The use of a single-item intersex/DSD status question. • The quality of the three measures of intersex/DSD status that were identified by the panel as having the strongest grounding in evidence to determine which measure most effectively identifies the intersex/DSD population in a range of settings.
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  • gender identity
  • sex development
  • national institutes
  • american progress


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