Thread by @thegirdlengr

My #FGM TORTURE💔
"They Cut Off My Clitoris And Threw It To Chickens To Eat!"

Mrs Layla Recalls Hers:
"I had just passed my school exam; instead of rewarding me for my good grades, my family gave me a midwife, locked me in a room and surrounded me.
My grandma and two neighboring

women were among the women who gathered around me that day.
Living in the village, like everyone else, we raised chickens at home. When this woman cut this part of my body, I was in pain and crying when I saw her threw my clitoris (soaked in blood) to the chickens, and they

gathered to eat it!
Since that day, I have been unable to eat chicken and don't even want to raise the poultry in my yard.
After the #FGM, I wanted to play and feel free but I couldn't walk unless I had my legs wide apart.
It took me a long time to understand what happened to me,

but as I grew up and got married, I understood what the consequences would be if I didn't get circumcised.
For villagers, 'an uncircumcised woman is considered a sinful woman, while a circumcised woman is a good woman'.
How does that make sense? What does that have to do with

behaving? They're following traditions they don't understand.
So, when I gave birth to my first child, I didn't want my daughter to go through the same painful experience, but I couldn't stop my husband from doing it.
My husband wanted to make his family happy by circumcising our

first daughter.
I tried to dissuade him but he wouldn't listen to me. So, they got her circumcised.
It's very heartbreaking to see your own daughter suffer while you can't do anything to save her!"

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #womenrights #WomensHealth #FGM