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    1. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @EnayatHusain @DrZuhdiJasser @shaazmahboob

      I'm too tired tonight to do a line-by line critique, but the reductive claims about what FGM "boils down to" in terms of symbolic meanings is absolutely contradicted by the anthropological record (see discussion here https://www.academia.edu/10197867/Between_moral_relativism_and_moral_hypocrisy_reframing_the_debate_on_FGM_ …)

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    2. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      The most touch-sensitive part of the penis is not the glans, but the foreskin, as has been demonstrated more than once using objective measures (for my summary see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/tre.531 …)

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    3. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      When you say "any form of male circumcision" you are obviously excluding the most dangerous and deadly forms, which are in fact deadlier than any form of FGC (e.g., circumcision among the Xhosa in South Africa): see Box 1 of http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/72712/ 

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    4. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      Your citation of the AAP statement without mention of the major critiques of it, and the fact that all other international equivalent bodies have reached a different conclusion, is unconscionable (my summary here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316527603_Cultural_bias_in_American_medicine_the_case_of_infant_male_circumcision …)

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    5. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      Your statement re: the WHO recommendation concerns adult, voluntary circumcision - that is not what anyone ethically objects to. The objection concerns involuntary circumcision of male children and babies. Conflating the two is misleading.

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    6. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      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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    7. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      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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    8. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      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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    9. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      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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    10. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      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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      Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
      Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

      "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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        2. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Jun 12
          Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

          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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        3. Enayat Husain‏ @EnayatHusain Jun 12
          Replying to @briandavidearp @DrZuhdiJasser @shaazmahboob

          @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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        1. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Aug 30
          Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

          This statement is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. The real problem is not that anyone is trying to “normalize violence towards women,” but that #FGM activists are trying to normalize the violence and mutilation of boys and men, if not minimize and erase it. #i2

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        1. Jim‏ @PentaTronic Jun 13
          Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

          And those authors actually say, “No doctor can become a vehicle for any ritual that is medically unsound, and whose intent is morally questionable.” I think this is called “making a rod for your own back.”

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        2. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Aug 30
          Replying to @briandavidearp @EnayatHusain and

          Concern that #FGM may be normalized is a pretext; the real fear of those who insist on driving a wedge between the forced genital cutting of both sexes is that male #circumcision will be viewed with the same scrutiny as FGM. Protection of male circumcision is their true goal. #i2

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        3. Frank McGinness‏ @KOTFrank Aug 30
          Replying to @Joseph4GI @briandavidearp and

          The New is for true equality, whereas the Old Feminists said, we will not water down our fight against FGM with any association with male circumcision, until females are protected, in the world. #i2

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        4. Joseph Lewis‏ @Joseph4GI Aug 30
          Replying to @KOTFrank @briandavidearp and

          Sounds like organized misandry to me...

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