circumcision, genital mutilation
@Museek@counter.social @XSGeek@counter.social I agree, only a consenting adult should be able to choose to have parts of their genitals cut off. Everyone deserves autonomy over their own body, whether they are male, female, or intersex.
I was circumcised as an infant, and it caused me a lot of harm. I wasn't left with enough skin to accommodate an erection properly, so erections were painful, and would sometimes cause my skin to tear and bleed. You can't know how someone will develop and grow when you cut them as an infant or child.
A recent study found that 11.5% of the infant circumcisions that they tracked for two years were botched in some way: http://spuonline.org/abstracts/2018/P21.cgi?fbclid=IwAR2i6ihhKEzPTXABDkJbJ67nVKQZ3cWsc9gMmicPtvsSgxLymKxClMhoyXQ Before the study, they expected it to be between 1-5%, but there has been little research into the harms of infant circumcision.