• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Except male genital mutilation, aka circumcision. (Please don’t take this as me saying FGM and MGM are equally bad. FGM is much, much worse.)

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      5 months ago

      There are other forms of MGM too. Fortunately most of them are rare these days. Castration, subincision, penectomy.

      And then there’s intersex people. That are routinely subject to “corrective surgery” in infancy. As adults they tend to be firmly of the opinion they should have been left alone and that the surgeries were harmful.

      IMO bodily integrity and autonomy is a fundamental human right that should be absolutely respected for every human being.

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      5 months ago

      There are five grades of FGM; MGM is equivalent to hoodectomy, which is grade III.

      The worst FGM is much, much worse that MGM, but the least-worst FGM is much less-worse than MGM.