Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

@patience @velexiraptor ouch

@Authoritimmy@jorts.horse @alex@bigshoulders.city Usually there's a good medical reason when wisdom teeth or tonsils are removed, and it doesn't involve cutting healthy genital tissue off of children who can't consent, like circumcision, intersex genital cutting, and FGM. Only a consenting adult should be able to choose to have parts of their genitals cut off, whether they are male, female, or intersex.

@micrackbiron @mdszy@mastodon.technology I have all of my email addresses in Thunderbird. Hydroxide is a libre replacement for the protonmail bridge, which hosts a local imap server so you can use it with any email client: https://github.com/emersion/hydroxide

@sophia@glitterkitten.co.uk Togo loves her new sweater and toy.

@zardoz@cybre.space Nice. My hair isn't quite long enough on the sides to tie into a pony tail yet.

@Cryoclaire I just gave my sister the sailor moon sticker for her birthday, and she loved it. She wanted some cute stickers to put on her laptop.

@derpayatz @jessmahler Even when circumcisions aren't botched, you're still removing a lot of erogenous tissue from someone who can't consent, and getting rid of the protective and mechanical gliding functions of the foreskin. In my case, it wouldn't have been possible to tell it was botched until puberty started, you don't know how much someone will grow when they are cut as an infant or child. In the US, there's no legal requirement for hospitals to keep track of or report botched circumcisions, even if they lead to the death of a child.
The operations performed on intersex children are often much worse. This person was castrated as an infant without their consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHAYOvTdMI Their mother was pressured into it by doctors, because of a slightly higher risk of cancer, even though that risk is much lower than the rate of breast cancer for cis women.