@johnfugelsang Will you be willing to talk about the violation of equal protections when it comes to laws only protecting girls from religious, cultural and non therapeutic genital cutting bur not protecting boys or intersex children?

I talked to @DeanObeidallah who said he would look into it and never heard him say anything about it again.

@ThomHartmann basically hung up one stating its probably because of its reasons for being done, he doesn't know about Philo Judaeus from 30 ad who stated circumcision was to get rid of excess pleasure because a man afflicted with lust could not walk the path of God. Or Moses Maimonides who in the 12th century said circumcision was to weaken mens sexual pleasure to drive lust and desire from his heart. Let's also not forget it was brought over in the late 1800s as a way to stop boys from self pleasure.

The WHO link I will provide shows the prevalence of each type of FGM, types 1,2 and 4 make up 90% and type 3 makes up 10% as you will see. Type 4 subtype 2 the AAP tried to get legalized as religious a while back stating the ritual knick is less severe and invasive than what's done to boys. Type 4 subtype 1 is a pin prick to draw out one drop of blood. People often state severity as reasons why one is illegal while the other is not. Research will show otherwise with the two examples I stated.

https://www.who.int/teams/sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-research-(srh)/areas-of-work/female-genital-mutilation/prevalence-of-female-genital-mutilation

Bottom line, no healthy child should ever be medically altered for any reason. Let the person they grow up to be make the decision.

Bodily autonomy for all and equal protections for all. #equality #equalprotections #FGM #MGM #IGM #EndCGM #equalprotectionclause

@ThomHartmann When are you going to stand up for equal protections for all children? I called your show last year and you hung up on me rather than allow me to explain my stance that boys and intersex children also deserve legal protections from religious, cultural and non therapeutic genital cutting like girls have. You started talking about the harms and reasons that it's done to girls without researching the harms and reasons it's done to others.

Bottom line is if one group is protected from genital cutting including religious, cultural and non therapeutic reasons the all groups should be. Equality should not be exclusive. No healthy child should have a scalpel touch them and remove healthy functional tissue which is highly sensitive and pleasurable for absolutely no immediate medical necessity.

If you think only girls should have rights to their bodies more than religion or culture does, but no one else then you do not understand equality.

#EndCGM #equality #equalprotections #FGM #MGM #IGM

The more we segregate human issue (those experienced by all) into gendered or other issues the more some groups will be left behind and ignored in favor of others. Sometimes I will concede that identifiers are well used if that issues affects only one group, but not if it affects all groups.

#EndCGM #equality

Hopefully when we win the battle for women's rights concerning their own bodies people will realize the war is not over, there will still be some out their with no legal protections.

#EndCGM #equality #equalprotections #FGM #MGM #IGM

It's amazing how many people who are very vocal about equality go silent when it comes to expanding protections girls have concerning genital cutting to boys and intersex children.

Currently 40 states and the federal government have laws exclusively protecting girls from all forms of genital cutting including Religious, cultural and non therapeutic reasons which boys and intersex children also are subject to.

#EndCGM #FGM #MGM #IGM #Equality #equalprotections #humanrights #bodilyautonomy

Trying out this as another way to work on equal protections for all children when it comes to genital cutting. #EndCGM #FGM #MGM #IGM #Equality #equalprotections