There’s a biblical difference between circumcision and FGM. We should not equate the two as being the same kind of mutilation when one was once commanded by God as the sign of the covenant. For that reason alone, governments have no authority to outlaw circumcision.
for the cross of Christ. 13 Not even those who are circumcised keep the law, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. 14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which[a] the world has been