Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

I read an article yesterday that made me rethink my stance on operations to correct hypospadias in children and infants. https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2013/02/hypospadias-intersexuality-and-gender.html
Hypospadias correction operations are closer to forced gender reassignment of intersex children than I realized. One in 125 children assigned male at birth have operations performed to correct hypospadias. Many of these operations also require circumcision, the tissue of the foreskin is used to construct a urethra.
The author is an intersex professor, and he shows how much of the medical literature on hypospadias tries to erase the existence of intersex genitals with inaccurate diagrams, drawn to look more like a "normal" penis that has a misplaced urethra.
#intersex #intactivism

@thufie Yeah, I just made @theonefreeman@humblr.social to keep track of my foreskin restoration progress, and it looks like only half of the posts on the local timeline bother tagging porn/nsfw pictures.

@Pyretta Interesting. I know the Quran itself doesn't mention male or female genital mutilation.

@Pyretta Genital cutting is common in Islam, almost universal for males, and common for females in many places. I wonder how intersex children were treated.

@Pyretta There's a Wikipedia article with some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_in_history

I think this speech touches on it for a little bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1rO3eDVM8

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However, my parents said that part of the reason they had me circumcised is because it had to have a medical benefit if it was done in the old testament.
I was cut so tight that my skin would sometimes tear and bleed, but restoring my foreskin has helped with that.

@jordyd@octodon.social @popefucker@cybre.space Outside of the US, and some parts of Africa, Christians don't circumcise. Galatians 5 even says that circumcision severs you from Christ.

@popefucker@cybre.space In the US circumcision was introduced in the late 1800s by a few Seventh Day Adventists, including John Kellogg, as a way to punish boys for masturbating. All of the other excuses were created after it had already caught on.