All forms of female cutting are considered "mutilation". Why aren't male forms considered that way. There is a difference between medical surgeries that treat a condition (therapeutic) and cosmetic ones (non-therapeutic). Male circ is rarely therapeutic.
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Replying to @dlindenii @KhazWolf and
Labiaplasty is rarely therapeutic and is not considered FGM. Male circumcision is rarely therapeutic and is not considered MGM. What’s sexist about that? And by rarely I mean 0.006% of the planet’s population. Or 42 million people. Who would die without it.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @KhazWolf and
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
What if Gregory’s 1000 follower movement snowballs and gains traction? I don’t want the slogan “ban male circumcision like FGM is banned- completely” advertised or the wrong thing is going to happen and some people will die. And even 210000 people isn’t ok.
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @KhazWolf and
I don't understand your point. Nobody wants to ban it completely. Nobody is saying that. The ban would have medical exceptions just as labiaplasty is allowed as a medical treatment today. Not cutting for no therapeutic reason.
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Replying to @dlindenii @KhazWolf and
I know YOU aren’t saying you want it totally banned, but can you really speak for everyone in your movement? Even the one who advertised the term, “blanket ban”?pic.twitter.com/5PRiCvjiRm
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Replying to @_Undersized_ @dlindenii and
You realize that girls can get "circumcised" out of life-saving medical necessity according to the FGM law, right? The whole thing is a canard. Nobody needs male or female circumcision to save life.
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Replying to @Gregory_Malchuk @dlindenii and
I needed a circumcision to save my life. True phimosis and constant infection. Can’t I at least attest to that? And where’s the part of FGM law that says that?
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And that makes sense, and that's something we'd say the law should still allow, but that's the rare case. More than 70% of circumcision world wide is religious, almost all of the rest is cultural, less than 1% is therapeutic medicine.
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