Two of the authors @DrZuhdiJasser and @shaazmahboob are on twitterhttps://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1006506869521899520 …
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Your statement that male circumcision has never been divided into types is false https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1525/maq.2007.21.3.301 … ... and the range of damage of differnt types of MGC ranges extremely widely (see Box 1 again https://www.academia.edu/35591618/The_law_and_ethics_of_female_genital_cutting …)
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The statment that all types of FGM involve female genital destruction is false: pricking or nicking without removal of tissue does not 'destroy' genitals. The statement that profound psychological harm follows from FGM regardless of severity is not supported by your reference
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Of course any form of genital cutting - male, female, or intersex - CAN (and often does) cause profound psychological harm depending on how it is done, when, in what context, etc., so this does not ground a sex-based categorical distinctionhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135910530200700310 …
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You state that "even the nick" can cause a high rate of complications, but there are NO data on the complication rates of the nick! The list of complications you include in the next sentence represent a conflation of ALL types of FGM with the nick - this is medically incoherent
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For what it's worth, I agree the nick shouldn't be performed without consent (consent is the issue!) & that a person could rationally tolerate zero risk for such cutting, but making up risk rate claims for the nick with no evidence is not ethicalhttps://quillette.com/2017/08/15/female-genital-mutilation-health-benefits-problem-medicalizing-morality/ …
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"The stated equivalency of male circumcision and FGM by some people is medically false and is a dangerous attempt to normalise obvious gender violence toward women." No, pointing to the overlap (physical, symbolic etc.) is an attempt to de-normalize violence toward all children
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For a direct and extended argument against the central claim of your article, seehttps://www.dovepress.com/female-genital-mutilation-and-male-circumcision-toward-an-autonomy-bas-peer-reviewed-article-MB …
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@insia_dariwala@SpeakoutonFGM Brilliantly articulated Brian. Someone sent me this article from the SpeakoutonFGM's FB page where a host of us have been banned. The opportunity to have an educated and intelligent debate is gone. Urging sahiyos to join in the debate
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