@mermaidbackup_ "BABY BOYS" & "FOR NON-RELIGIOUS REASONS" are very important texts for context. Africa circumcises young men, not infants and most other world circumcisions are Muslim and Jewish aka RELIGIOUS.
Eric Clopper of @IntactGlobalinc has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado that would require the state to enforce the genital mutilation statute that protects girls from circumcision to also protect boys.
Articulate dialogue on @LBC between @OliverGrint24 and @BenKentish on childhood circumcision.
Oliver rightly points out that the topic sits at a controversial crossroads of children, sex, and religion. Only by speaking up, as Oliver has done, can the taboo be broken.
Tomorrow my non-profit @IntactGlobalinc will announce our second lawsuit against cosmetic childhood circumcision. But individuals like Oliver sharing their perspectives are just as important to move the children's rights movement forward.
#FGM is illegal: no medical need, risk, no consent = abuse. Non-therapeutic circumcision? Removes healthy tissue, no consent, real risks.
Same principle applied differently. Why?
Children either have protection from avoidable harm, or they don’t.
Yup, circumcision usually leaves a man searching for lotion or lube in order to masturbate. Intact men and women have moist hoods (foreskin & clitoral hood) full of sensative nerve endings that cover their glans (penis head & clitoris) & provides a sensual sleeve of natural lube
Brilliant monologue by @DrHoenderkamp on the need for our institutions to recognize a child's right to his or her own body.
@IntactGlobalinc is fighting for that recognition here in the U.S. with equal protection lawsuits. We filed our second in Denver, Colorado earlier this week.