Every year in the Philippines, young boys are lined up, pinned on tables, overpowered & subjected to what any adult would experience as torture, as part of their penis is cut off while loved ones smile, laugh, and hold their arms down. Horrific abuse 
A recent study suggests this causes PTSD in these young boys at rates of nearly 70%, more than 3 times the rate of soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Meanwhile US, Bill Gates et al funding mass penis cutting in Africa of boys of similar age, with 35K+ estimated forcibly circumcised w/o even parental consent in Kenya alone ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…… - schoolboys lied to & told they will be immune from HIV vmmcproject.org/wp-content/upl…
Meanwhile Western law holds that symbolic pricking of a girl’s clitoral hood without removing tissue or causing any functional damage or long term physical harm counts as criminal assault and genital mutilation, even if a religious rite abc.net.au/news/2019-10-1…
In NYC alone 3K+/yr babies born to ultra Orthodox parents subjected to unhygienic oral suction circumcision (mohel takes boy’s bleeding penis into mouth, risking herpes transmission & death). This is *legal* & *unregulated* - no consent form required! thedailybeast.com/ban-the-ritual…
The double standard and hypocrisy is so blatant and undeniable that defenders of ritual male circumcision have connected the dots & now argue in mainstream ethics and law journals that non-consensual “minor FGM” should be allowed in Western countries!!
The protections for girl’s genital integrity & bodily autonomy that have been fought for over decades now risk being overturned to protect male genital cutting. US federal anti-FGM law recently struck down as unconstitutional! theconversation.com/unconstitution…
There is emergency for advocates of children’s rights. We must band together so that all non-consenting vulnerable persons, female, male, or intersex, are protected from medically unnecessary genital cutting, not “leveling down” to allow cutting of girls! theconversation.com/unconstitution…
In “Defense of Genital Autonomy for Children” I argue we should NOT become more tolerant of non-consensual cutting of girls’ genitals so as to “even the score” & allow boy cutting to continue. Rather, *all* children deserve respect for their sexual anatomy jme.bmj.com/content/42/3/1…
See also “Protecting girls from FGM- a new strategy based on children’s rights”
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