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Is trans surgery just state-sanctioned mutilation?
Guest Author Published27 June 2022Brendan O’Neill spiked’s chief political writer recently published this insightful piece.
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Gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision – why or why not?
Guest Author Published7 March 2022A recently published issue of Global Discourse uses Professor Richard Shweder’s essay
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Why we should be concerned about UK FGM laws
Bríd Hehir Published19 February 2022My paper, Why we should be concerned about UK female genital mutilation laws
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FGM: Perils of a cause célèbre
Guest Author Published25 May 2021A patronising and draconian response to FGM risks victimising women who have already been abused writes Ella Whelan.
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“I always believed Dr Nagarwala was innocent and overcharged”
A criminal defence lawyer asserted this when she wrote the following
Lisbon Court suspended sentence for mother convicted of FGM
Lisbon Court suspends sentence to woman convicted of FGM.
The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts
Two court cases in 2019 involving Dawoodi Bohras (a Shia Muslim sect),
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Mutilation is OK - if carried out in the name of transgenderism. shiftingsands.org.uk/is-trans…
@MaryKenny4 @AnnFuredi I thought @AnnFuredi addressed that point well in this podcast. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0…
Allan J Jacobs @globaldiscourse shows how understanding of the anatomy of female/male bodies can contribute to debates about circumcision: anatomical differences make female circumcision dangerous in infancy and male circumcision safest in infancy. bristoluniversitypressdigital…
In this @globaldiscourse essay, @briandavidearp shows how he and Rick Shweder agree on the presence of double standards but depart in their normative conclusions, with Earp rejecting all medically unnecessary medical cutting of children. bristoluniversitypressdigital…
Here, Drs Ahmadu and Kamau analyse the paradox of the treatment of @FGC in #Kenyan law, in which legislation appears to privilege gender-confirming surgery in a cultural context with less fluid gender norms. ingentaconnect.com/content/bu…