Non-consensual female genital cutting is always considered genital mutilation. Non-consensual male genital cutting is generally not considered mutilation. That's what is sexist. Far more die from male circ than "die from not having it".
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Replying to @dlindenii @KhazWolf and
Just by the way, somebody pointed out that it’s actually ~210000 people not 42 million, sorry, it was 1 AM so math error, but the point still stands, a lot of people need the procedure.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @KhazWolf and
Doubtful, but even at that, you don't cut before the disease or condition. That's not how medicine works. Medicine treats.
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Replying to @dlindenii @KhazWolf and
I mean, we amputated infected legs if there’s nothing else we can do. And tonsils, in cases of chronic infection. Sometimes in order to avoid doing more harm you have to do the surgery.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @KhazWolf and
Yes, but that's my point. Prophylactic (preventative) male circ is legal without any disease or condition. The same is not true for labiaplasty or any other surgery on female genitals. This is sexism & doesn't comply with medical ethics.
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Replying to @dlindenii @KhazWolf and
Ah, I see. I’m not sure if it was made to be sexist originally, I just think they thought cutting was better for men. So maybe a technical oversight, then?
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @dlindenii and
No, the medical field started it as a Victorian era anti-sex campaign that never stopped. Everything else is a post-hoc rationalization.
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Replying to @Gregory_Malchuk @dlindenii and
Don’t movements change their intentions over time?
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @Gregory_Malchuk and
FGM will exist as long as MGM does. Pro-FGM activists cite the medical benefits and hygiene benefits -- they also cite that "males can be cut, so why not females"? Again, let's separate medical from ritual/cultural practices. Male circ (MGM) in the US is cultural.
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Replying to @dlindenii @Gregory_Malchuk and
Ah, may be a bit of a culture gap then. Rates are far lower in Australia and there were a few movements to ban it like Finland.
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Ahhh you're Australian, this makes more sense, there circumcision is mostly religious, and after that done as theraputic medicine. In the USA, parents are asked (sometimes again and again) if they are having their child circumcised, I have heard parents who said no were asked >>
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Replying to @ReyosB @_Undersized_ and
2> again, asked a second time, within the baby;s first 15 minutes of life. You see circumcision as something medical because that's how it is where you live, in Australia they don't ask parents if they want it done, parents have to ask for RIC.
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