This cartoon slide highlights the issues Transgenderism generates for ritual genital cutting. #HealthcareAndSecularismpic.twitter.com/r7legywbw2
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Does that look like 4mm of skin there? and remember this is off the infant penis, which is barely an inch or two long, so yes, it's half of the skin of the penis.pic.twitter.com/doLbVZBIBu
I do circs. It’s about 4mm.
Then the patients under your care who you betray your oath "Primum non nocere" and duty to are luckier than I was, and far luckier than any boy in an orthodox jewish bris.
Their parents sign an informed consent. I don’t say pro or con. It’s the parents’ choice, take it up with them. Further, the data on decreased STI is very clear.
So where's the epidemic of children contracting STDs that makes this ethical? The parents have no right asking for a prophylactic surgery that causes irreversible harm. What else would you be willing to cut off an infant because it might later have an illness involved?
I will also dispute the STD information is clear, the African HIV trials are so full of bad science if you actually read them. Plus all studies into homosexual men have shown no benefit, no studies outside those few in Africa have shown any HIV benefit.
Real world data shows the opposite as well, countries with circumcision in the developed world have a higher incidence of HIV than countries that do not routinely circumcise. We can also look at HPV, where the most recent study, done by the CDC, shows that circumcised men have >>
2> twice the rate of cancer causing HPV then intact men, showing a negative there. Above it all every one of these studies still require condom use, which negates any benefit from circumcision. And the claimed benefits are slight, there was a 1.8% ARR in the hiv studies, where >>
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