Fortunately the journalist seems to understand what a girl is.
On the whole, yes, but FGM stands for 'female genital mutilation', so I did wonder why she refers to this as 'forced genital mutilation' in the first paragraph (but it is the Guardian).
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.