http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/adoptive-parents-sue-genital-surgery-article-1.1346235
"Now 8, the child identified only as "MC" was born with male and female genitalia. State social workers decided to raise MC as a girl when she was 16 months old and still in foster care.
Surgery removed part of a penis and created a vagina, according to the suit. The child was then raised as a girl...."
"...About a year ago, the Crawfords said, MC said he wanted to be raised as a boy. The parents agreed and allowed the child to wear boys' clothing and to get his hair cut short.
"He wants to be a normal little boy," said his mother, Pam Crawford, who is a psychiatrist."
Normality is what cuts off the one set of fun bits you wanted to keep.
And about the cutting routinely done on normal little boys:
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-study-estimates-neonatal-circumcision-death-rate-higher-than-suffocation-and-auto-accidents
"A new study published last week in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies estimates that more than 100 baby boys die from circumcision complications each year, including from anesthesia reaction, stroke, hemorrhage, and infection. Because infant circumcision is elective, all of these deaths are avoidable."
As y'all may recall, circumcision came into popularity as a masturbation preventer.
http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html
"Frequent micturition [urination], loss of flesh, convulsions, phosphatic calculus, hernia, nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, prolapse of rectum, balanitis, acute phimosis and masturbation are all conditions induced by the constricted long prepuce, and all to be rapidly remedied by the simple operation of circumcision." H. G. H. Naylor, A Plea for Early Circumcision, Pediatrics, vol. 12 (1901): p. 231.
That was science, there...
There are actual health benefits to be had from male circumcision:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130416102314.htm
But the infant has no say in the matter.
Maybe a scream of agony, but no say.
We think cutting infant boys is fine.
...But female circumcision is superstitious cruelty, right? What those uncivilized people do.
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2177677
"lowered risk of HIV infection among circumcised women was not attributable to confounding with another risk factor in these data. Anthropological insights on female circumcision as practiced in Tanzania may shed light on this conundrum.
"
Normality doesn't just cut your sixth finger and your tail, apparently it's far more likely to take off parts of your fun bits. Without consulting you.
That last bit is the part I have problems with.
"Now 8, the child identified only as "MC" was born with male and female genitalia. State social workers decided to raise MC as a girl when she was 16 months old and still in foster care.
Surgery removed part of a penis and created a vagina, according to the suit. The child was then raised as a girl...."
"...About a year ago, the Crawfords said, MC said he wanted to be raised as a boy. The parents agreed and allowed the child to wear boys' clothing and to get his hair cut short.
"He wants to be a normal little boy," said his mother, Pam Crawford, who is a psychiatrist."
Normality is what cuts off the one set of fun bits you wanted to keep.
And about the cutting routinely done on normal little boys:
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-study-estimates-neonatal-circumcision-death-rate-higher-than-suffocation-and-auto-accidents
"A new study published last week in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies estimates that more than 100 baby boys die from circumcision complications each year, including from anesthesia reaction, stroke, hemorrhage, and infection. Because infant circumcision is elective, all of these deaths are avoidable."
As y'all may recall, circumcision came into popularity as a masturbation preventer.
http://www.whale.to/a/circumcision1.html
"Frequent micturition [urination], loss of flesh, convulsions, phosphatic calculus, hernia, nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, prolapse of rectum, balanitis, acute phimosis and masturbation are all conditions induced by the constricted long prepuce, and all to be rapidly remedied by the simple operation of circumcision." H. G. H. Naylor, A Plea for Early Circumcision, Pediatrics, vol. 12 (1901): p. 231.
That was science, there...
There are actual health benefits to be had from male circumcision:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130416102314.htm
But the infant has no say in the matter.
Maybe a scream of agony, but no say.
We think cutting infant boys is fine.
...But female circumcision is superstitious cruelty, right? What those uncivilized people do.
http://www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=11&abstractId=2177677
"lowered risk of HIV infection among circumcised women was not attributable to confounding with another risk factor in these data. Anthropological insights on female circumcision as practiced in Tanzania may shed light on this conundrum.
"
Normality doesn't just cut your sixth finger and your tail, apparently it's far more likely to take off parts of your fun bits. Without consulting you.
That last bit is the part I have problems with.