BayArea Intactivists

Bay Area Intactivists is a human rights organization working to eradicate all forms of genital cutting of children including routine infant circumcision.

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

@hookonabooks @dlindenii @intactamerica There is female genital cutting in the United States motivated by religion. The doctor in Detroit who was charged with female genital cutting did it because the girls' parents believed it is a religious requirement.

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

The ethical double standard for male genital cutting vs female genital cutting is appalling.

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

Medically unnecessary labia cutting should "not even be entertained" even if requested/consensual, until genital growth/development complete. "Labia have lots of nerve endings in them ..." Indeed. Same principle applies to the human prepuce, male or female https://t.co/0yhvarEuJe

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

It's past time to end all genital cutting of children!

#EndGenitalCutting #GenitalAutonomy

[Mass Bay Intactivists @MassBayIntact]

Circumcision Harms Humans.

#Circumcision #EndChildCircumcision #EndInfantCircumcision #ForeskinLove
#GenitalAutonomy
#Trauma
#MedEd

https://t.co/IeTgmui0JI

[Frank McGinness @KOTFrank]

Last night Jeff Brown and I rode as Jonathon Conte’s Critical Integrity joining @CriticalMass in San Francisco. #i2 @BAIntactivists

[Harry Guiremand @HarryGuiremand]

Thank you, Brendan LaChance for covering today’s #BloodstainedMen & Friends protest in Casper, Wyoming for Oil City News.
#i2 https://t.co/7K6qcgKOKu

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

FWIW, my position is that circumcision is an archaic obscenity, a violation of the rights of a child & the fact that it can be (and often is) conducted outside of clinical conditions and without anaesthesia is utterly abhorrent. >

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

@Musonia_Rufa @dlindenii @GenIntact @fair1ife4a11 @dkingpower7 @DML74 Male genital cutting is unnecessary. It cuts off a functional and highly erogenous part of a male's genitals.

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

@Musonia_Rufa @dlindenii @GenIntact @fair1ife4a11 @dkingpower7 @DML74 Male genital cutting is unnecessary. It cuts off a functional and highly erogenous part of a male's genitals.

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

@BloodstainedMen are in Colorado raising awareness. Male genital cutting is unnecessary and harmful.

[BayArea Intactivists @BAIntactivists]

@BloodstainedMen are in Colorado raising awareness. Male genital cutting is unnecessary and harmful.

[KJCT News 8 @KJCTNews8]

A national protest against male circumcision took to the streets of Grand Junction over the weekend. https://t.co/jFkjaCRtip

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

P.S. Study thanking Tomlinson, inventor of "AccuCirc" device (https://t.co/8x80VGKTCI) & one of lead authors of @WHO manual for non-consensual circumcision touting his own device, recommending @WHO pre-qualification of AccuCirc for mass African scale-up: https://t.co/UY7Jys1uEl

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

then it should not publish manuals for removing 30-50% of motile, erogenous skin system of penis in non-consenting boys based on "health benefits" in consenting adults (in conjunction w. "religious & cultural" considerations) written by inventors of circ devices. Shame on @WHO.

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

@WHO has sacrificed all credibility on male & female genital cutting. If ritual nicking is human rights violation regardless of cultural/religious significance, & if 'cosmetic' labiaplasty is wrong to perform on infant girls even though it has WHO-scope "health benefits" in women

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

More claims of health benefits for "female circumcision" below. Even cosmetic labiaplasty in West is touted as conferring mental & sexual health benefits to women who choose it, well within @WHO definition of health. If @WHO conflates adults/infants in males, why not females?

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

Defenders of "female circumcision" now argue this, seeing that "health benefits" seems to impress Western arbiters of which forms of child genital cutting are permissible. You even see claims of "cleanliness" in parallel with male circumcision now raised https://t.co/70GUIrJEfM

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

that @WHO definition of health is very broad. Not just absence of disease, but "mental & social" wellbeing included. Do social & religious benefits of having vulva modified to fit local cultural norms, avoid teasing, promote marriageability etc., count as health benefits then?

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

The "health benefits" used to bolster the latter claim come primarily from studies of sexually active adults undergoing *voluntary* circumcision. So what are the health benefits of voluntary vulva modifications & should these be extrapolated to non-consenting baby girls? Recall

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

@WHO now simultaneously claims Type IV ritual 'nicking' of vulva (which does not remove tissue) is *human rights violation* regardless of consent, culture, or religion, while decision 2 remove 1/3 or more penile skin system in non-consenting babies should factor culture/religion?

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

If such penile laceration & hemorrhage occurs even in developed countries with excellent training programs, using existing clamps and procedures, then surely Tomlinson's new device should be preferred for mass circumcision in developing countries with less excellent training?

[Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. @briandavidearp]

How much money will Tomlinson earn from mass infant circumcision in African countries w. no existing tradition? In @WHO manual he touts his own invention to reduce risk of penile laceration & hemorrhage, which occurs "even in developed countries with excellent training programs."