Choose Intact

@ChooseIntact

All children are born with the same human rights. Those rights must be protected. Non-therapeutic genital cutting without their consent violates those rights.

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  1. Jan 4

    We can get to the ethical principle even if no anatomical (i.e. a prepuce is a prepuce) equivalence existed. We all have genitals. We all have bodies. Who do they belong to? From what point? But the male foreskin is normal. It isn’t vestigial. We need to educate on that.

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  2. Jan 4

    I think it mostly reflects our cultural (mis)understanding of the foreskin. We need to legitimize it as the normal, functioning body part it is. That requires overcoming anatomical-equivalence ignorance. I suspect most people believe male anatomy appears distinct from conception.

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  3. Jan 4

    In the years since I learned that circumcision is a thing, people who express shock and/or mockery that people are upset about it baffle me. “Someone cut part of me off. I hate that.” “Haha, you’re a fragile loser! Grow up!” How does anyone get to a place of so little empathy?

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    So this is just a heads up to people who want to protect children, including girls, from medically unnecessary genital cutting of all kinds. The strongest argument going forward will shift from the X axis (distinctions based on sex) to the Y axis (distinction based on consent),

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  5. Jan 3
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  6. Jan 3

    “[FGM is] all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” Hey, : Male circumcision is partial removal (and injury) for non-medical reasons.

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  7. Jan 3

    I should’ve numbered the tweets. Anyway, here’s the screenshot of what I originally replied to, to keep it in the thread since she blocked me. Earnest-and-unintentionally-snarky reason: I prefer people have relevant information.

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  8. Jan 3

    ones who intentionally lag behind, with great effort. But eventually they will diminish in numbers. Never to zero, unfortunately, because the human failing that got and kept us here isn’t dying out. But more open minds equals more children whose rights are protected. That’s good.

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  9. Jan 3

    that we’re winning the cultural fight *very* slowly. People can do head-in-the-sand. People like Dr London start to realize they’re peddling nonsense. I assume her nonsense will get more sophisticated so she can continue deceiving herself. But the wall has holes. They will be the

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  10. Jan 3

    ... I spew that out and pretend its activism? It only turns people off, in my experience. So, while public venting feels good, it’s fleeting. And unproductive. So ignorant folks spread their nonsense and block people, even if their responses attack only ideas. I think it means

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  11. Jan 3

    to change people’s minds. And I don’t want to lose my humanity in the process. Non-therapeutic genital cutting without consent is inhumane. I struggle because that was done to me. Sometimes I go quiet because I don’t have anything nice to say. I’m angry. But what does that do if

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  12. Jan 3

    I wish I knew. I’m missing out loud. My initial guess is repetition. Painful, slow, annoying, frustrating, tiresome... all of it. But it’s what it will take. And kindness, probably. Not that it’s fair or that this improves things for those of us who have been violated. But I want

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  13. Jan 3

    Dr London somehow gets a pass because she’s a doctor, but she’s ignorant. She can tweet out mistakes and myths and people who don’t want to question simply regard that as authority. We need to rely on experts. But how do we hold experts accountable for their gaps and biases?

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  14. Jan 3

    So it’s up to activists, old and new, to change culture. That’s what is good about , as an example. And as slow as the process is, it’s all we have to fix this gaping hole in our society’s ethics. The irritating aspect is when people like Dr. London are the experts.

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  15. Jan 3

    Non-therapeutic genital cutting without consent should end. It will require cultural change. Legislatures won’t do it. Courts might, but it’s unlikely. Culture leads the law. The FGM law’s downfall would be overruled illogically before equal protection will occur in today’s US.

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  16. Jan 3

    This tweet is question begging. Do we evaluate decisions on their merits or do parents have free rein to treat their children as property? If it’s the former, what’s the standard to restrict parents from exercising this alleged right on their daughters’ healthy, normal genitalia?

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  17. Jan 3

    “I’ve made the decision in my life for my son” is the perfect summary of what a defense of parental choice is for non-therapeutic genital cutting. But parenting is about raising an individual with their own preferences, not building an external expression of one’s preferences.

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    27 Dec 2018

    Vagina surgery 'sought by girls as young as nine' - BBC News

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  19. Jan 3

    To be fair, I doubt there’s any level of information or a debating strategy that will change someone’s mind who is as committed as Dr London is to ignorance. At least short-term. But giving back vitriol isn’t a strategy for short- or long-term success, or influencing observers.

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  20. Jan 3

    When she said being anti-circumcision was anti-Semitic, she was being ridiculous. Going to the other extreme with an accusation against her is also ridiculous. We support genital integrity because each individual has rights. Treat each person as an individual in debate, too.

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