Laws banning FGM are harmful and ‘stigmatising’, say academics

British Academics Want to ‘Decolonise’ Female Genital Mutilation

A new paper in a highly regarded British Medical Journal publication has sparked outrage for attempting to launch a debate on the so-called “harms of the current global anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaign.” It says coverage of the practice, where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, often relies on “titillating sensationalism,” and complains that this “leads to vilification of migrants, infantilisation of peopl…

Laws that ban FGM are harmful and 'stigmatising' towards migrant communities, academics say

Laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM) have been deemed harmful and perpetuate stigma towards migrant communities, a group of 25 academics from leading British universities has said

British Medical Journal Decries Racist Western Opposition to Female Genital Mutilation

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Laws banning FGM are harmful and ‘stigmatising’, say academics

Article in British Medical Journal draws an equivalence between FGM in Africa and a trend in the UK and US for cosmetic procedures to create a ‘designer vagina’

“Progressives” appear to whitewash female genital mutilation

This is an example of how horrible cultural practices are excused—or made to seem less harmful—by “progressives” (read “the woke”) when they’re characteristic of minority groups. In this case the practice is one of the cruelest and most misogynistic forms of behavior around—female genital mutilation (FGM), especially in its most damaging form, infibulation (there are three forms of FGM; see below).  I This issue came to my mind when I saw this t…