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Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To put a stop to this, we need to first banish the thought that it's okay if the child/infant is male. It's a form of sexism and it's honestly pretty ugly.

The dialogue should generally go that all genital mutilation of infants and children is wrong for any reason excepting bona fide medical necessity as determined by spiritually/religiously/politically neutral medical providers. And that anyone supporting infant genital mutilation, even if it's only for one sex/gender, race, religion, whatever, should be seen as the same as someone supporting infant genital mutilation for anyone.

[–] Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago

This also needs to apply for intersex infants. It is currently standard practice to try to surgically "correct" any infants that display intersex traits at birth, regardless if there is an actual medical necessity.

Of course, this would also require adding a third option to standard birth certificates, or removing assigned sex from the certificates, which reactionary chuds would throw a fit over.