Monthly Archives: February 2018
The (evangelising) FGM Detectives
The FGM Detectives, a Channel 4 TV documentary
Read MoreAnother ‘FGM’ wild goose chase
Yesterday (22 February 2018) a Somali man
Read MoreFemale Circumcision: Consent and Parental Rights
Parents’ rights to consent for their children
Read MoreZac Goldsmith, an authority on FGM?
Earlier today, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour
Read MoreFemale Genital Mutilation: Prosecution Rates
Parliament UK.
Read MoreZero Tolerance for FGM: Winning battles but losing wars
Essay. February 6th 2018 was #MeTooFGM day.
Read MoreA religious ritual to be tried in the U.S.
On 14 January 2018, a federal judge in Detroit, Michigan,
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Articles: Grouped by Tag
Recent Tweets by @ShiftingSandFGC
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…