Not quite the same thing at all imo. I was circumcised as a baby in the U.S. I was later told it was to help stop *ovarian cancer*. The mind retains no memory of past pain.
It has deprived me of nothing.
FGM is a whole different other thing entirely.
So. There's that then. 
There have been many reported instances of groups of African women protesting the ban on female circumcision, calling it racist and imperialist. The voices of the majority are drowned out by the few token African women who only talk against the practice so they can sell books.