Celibate? Married? In a committed, exclusive relationship? Want to exercise your fundamental human right not to have elective surgery? Like the actual facts about #circumcision, it seems none of that matters to the Tanzanian MPs who are now advocating for forced circumcision #i2
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#i2 What's been proposed is that the Tanzanian government "check" to see whether men have been circumcised - & any who are found not to be will be required to have it done. Like this, only the men doing the frog-marching would be government#bureaucrats:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1110230/Men-forced-circumcision-town-residents-Kenya.html …Show this thread -
The excuse given for proposing this blatant human rights violation - that
#circumcision somehow, magically & counterintuitively reduces the risk of#HIV transmission - is based entirely on rigged, unethical RCTs that have been thoroughly debunked.#i2https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272498905_Sub-Saharan_African_randomised_clinical_trials_into_male_circumcision_and_HIV_transmission_Methodological_ethical_and_legal_concerns …Show this thread -
Tete province has both the lowest
#circumcision rate in#Mozambique & the lowest rate of HIV prevalence. The effort to circumcise Africa by@PEPFAR to prevent#HIV is actually having the opposite effect. And as the@BBC article itself points out... https://allafrica.com/stories/201705100560.html …Show this thread -
Most men in Tanzania are already circumcised & the
#HIV rate is among the highest in the world. Sadly, for those blindly committed to genital cutting, facts such as these never matter. Because for them, it's never really been about "health benefits."#i2#HisBodyHisChoiceShow this thread -
And it's never been about "personal choice" - if it were, they would be happy to allow others to choose not to be circumcised. The fact that they're not is confirmed by this first, frightening step toward forced circumcision. Because it shows what genital-cutters truly think:
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Those who believe in female genital cutting believe all females should be cut, and those who believe in male genital cutting believe all males should be cut. It really is as simple as that. Their arguments that it's about "personal choice" or health benefits are all red herrings.
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If the forced circumcision of adult men can be proposed and openly debated in a national legislature, how far are we really from legislative proposals to force children to be circumcised over even their parents' objections? And if you think "it could never happen here" 2 words:
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...is nearing the point when they will drop the pretense that they actually believe in any of the "reasons" they give for circumcision or that they're going to persuade anyone else w/those "reasons," and they're simply going to demand everyone be required to be circumcised...
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...at least in the places where they think they can get away with that.
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