Monthly Archives: August 2018
Anti-FGM activists demean women
The long-predicted epidemic of FGM
Read MoreLaws against FGM and Khafz need to be scrapped
While I disagree with Dawoodi Bohra’s insisting
Read MoreAustralia court rules Bohra female circumcision not FGM
The Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court in New South Wales, 10 August 2018, acquitted
Read MoreFGM armoury to be strengthened irrespective of need
An ‘extraordinary debate about something that we all care passionately’,
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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…