Yes, the same rule applies. I am arguing that religious customs should have no more special significance than secular ones. In most cases, we don't allow parents to modify their kids bodies without medical need. We shouldn't make an exception for this.
If you want to deal with proportionality, estimates are 200 million women worldwide with some form of FGM, and 30%, roughly 1.15 billion, men circumcised. If we want to talk equivalence, there are types of FGM demonstrably less invasive and damaging than circumcision, namely>>
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2> types 1A (hoodectomy) and many of the subtypes of 4, (pricking, nicking, scraping) but these are still just as illegal as the worst, type 3 which is less than 4% of all FGM worldwide.
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