21/33 Would you force a 17 y. o. male to undergo foreskin amputation if his new stepfather demanded it? What if he was a 5 y.o.? Would you force genital cutting of any kind on a girl of any age? How then can you defend forcing #foreskin amputation on a boy at any age? #i2 #AAP18
2/5 which the latest data shows to have an 11.5% complication rate. Boys can die from it too. A pinprick of female genitals "is often done by trained clinicians in the communities where it is common. Long-term adverse health consequences are believed to be rare."
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@WHO defines it as FGM. Some women subjected to this cutting, just like some cut men, "insist that they didn't mind, and are proud of being cut" in part b/c they, like some cut men, consider it to be religiously required. "Moreover, at least two studies by... -
4/5 "Western scientists have shown a negative correlation between female circumcision and HIV. The authors of one of the studies, both seasoned statisticians who expected to find the opposite relationship, described their findings as a 'significant and perplexing inverse...
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