Take the F out of FGM

That sounds dreadful. Can you post a link?

I believe they managed to stop anti FGM legislation in some part of the US because they assumed it would stop sex alignment operations. for the love of god, how dumb are these people?

The guardian have been calling it ‘Forced Genital Mutilation’ I’ve seen.
Whatever problems females have, they always have to have 10 times worse 🙄

I wish I could say I'm.surprised however I have seen for myself on Twitter , a fgm survivor being told she has cis privilege and to shut up.

I haven't seen this, but the Guardian published an article the other day which started with this line:

Covid-19 school closures have exposed children around the world to human rights abuses such as forced genital mutilation, early marriage and sexual violence, child protection experts say.

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/01/many-girls-have-been-cut-how-coronavirus-global-school-closures-left-children-at-risk

Omg
Hibo Wadere on The Happy Vagina podcast is one of the most moving things I've ever listened to. How dare they? Seriously?

FFS.

Forced? Seriously? Like there is another kind? Who freely agrees to have their clitoris cut out without being forced? It's totally unnecessary

Plus - it happens ONLY because the girl is FEMALE and female sexuality needs to be suppressed.

World has gone mad....

I've seen this happen to a few campaigners on fgm on twitter. @radfemjana as well.

It makes me sick.

Anyone got a link to Hibos story - quick i need it fast!

www.telegraph.co.uk/family/parenting/forgave-mother-fgm-want-stop-practice/

Heres Jana Cornel's reply to JK Rowling.

Thank you for saying this. I have been told not to speak out about female genital mutilation because it's "transphobic ". How am I able to campaign for myself and millions of my sisters who have also suffered if I can't recognize sex?

twitter.com/RadfemJana/status/1269389904175419392

Shes written a book called "Cut"
Here's the podcast, very worth listening to
podtail.com/en/podcast/the-happy-vagina/the-cut/

Horrific

https://twitter.com/hibowardere/status/1269999207030669313?s=21

Here's Hibo's video. I forgot to post this the other day because all the JKR stuff was kicking off.

Hibo is not the sort of person who would make a video like this unless she really was at the end of her tether.

It's absolutely despicable

Maybe forced is better. I massively disagree with male circumcision as well, and forced might open up the debate on this.

No it's not a better word.

The two things are done for entirely different reasons.

Whereas boys absolutely should be left alone I find it disturbing that they would do it without medical necessity, but we do need to be able to discuss what happens to little girls without having to centre boys in order for anyone to give a shit it happens

If men want to campaign about boys being cut they should go ahead. There would doubtless be heck of alot of support from near enough everyone .

But they really need to stop piggy backing on stuff done by women about women and girls . Nothing in the world is stopping them from doing it about boys themselves

Hibo is brilliant. It's shocking that they would target this woman and this campaign.

There really is no depths they won't plummet to.

how has it got to this?

Yeah. I think male and female circumcision are different enough in effect, and they also come out of quite different purposes generally speaking, that you really need to treat them as separate.

I was wondering how long it would take for the "what about boys?" brigade to rock up

I was reading sometime that even withIn FGM it is necessary to understand the culture in which it operates in order to be able to tackle it

yeah let a man take up that cause