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I feel guilty that I didn't obtain a high enough public office to have 'friends' pay for my parents homes and care and pay off my debts and the debts of my child.
I'm plainly failing at being a good, patriotic, law abiding citizen of this place.
#veteran #equalprotectionclause #equality #equalcriminallliability

@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