Fellow #intactivists- if you want to grow this movement, which at its core is about #BodilyAutonomy and #ChildRights realize how these issues overlap with so many others and be good allies! Support #Trans kids, stop #intersex surgeries. Fight #FGM, support #WomensRights #LGBT
Aren't there cases where surgical intervention must be done just to keep the urinary tract of intersex individuals patent? It does become complex, because that is probably justified, but full blown "normalization" is definitely not.
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What’s your point? There cases where the foreskin is gangrene or so scarred from forced retraction circumcision is also medically necessary. The rare need for extreme genital surgery is not the issue- cosmetic genital mutilation of children is the issue. Which are most cases.
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I've never seen either of those cases and those simply wouldn't exist within the current regime of *routine* infant circumcision. The case against intersex mutilation is similar, though I have trouble getting through to people if I try to paint them as identical issues.
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Basically the case I make against IGM relies more upon the inability of surgery to improve on the neurological situation of intersex genitals, and less on the fundamental presence or absence of a pathology or on physical integrity.
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