If you look at the world today vs the world just a decade or two ago, things have changed dramatically. It’s not as if we weren’t already going to this place we now reside, it’s that the moment to advance ripened for those wanting to push drastic changes. If nothing else, the year 2020 was a laugh in the face of the notion we should have 20/20 vision. We keep looking back and we keep not learning.
There are several articles and websites dedicated to the banning and horrors of female genital mutilation and several dedicated to the joy and benefit of transgender surgery. I agree with the notion that genital mutilation is a horrible practice but I do not agree that gender changing surgery for children or teenagers is a good thing based on the notion they are uncomfortable in their bodies.
Some of these articles are a few years old but the fight still goes on against the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation.
We will end female genital mutilation only by backing frontline activists
I underwent female genital mutilation at the age of seven, while on holiday in Djibouti. When I returned to school in the UK my teacher told me that this happened to “girls like me”.
Thankfully, this type of reaction is no longer common, and this country is much better equipped to protect girls at risk.
We’ve heard people yell and scream about the injustice and grossness of cutting into or cutting off parts of a girl’s genitals. The horror of it is shocking and, when I first heard about it, I was struck with disbelief. How could any society force or allow such a practice?
We all know that Wikipedia is a questionable source of information because contributors can change the pages on the fly and even lock down changes if it suits them. Below is what they show currently about this subject.
During the 19th century, FGM was frequently performed by doctors as a treatment for many sexual and psychological conditions. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the clitoris was considered the center of female sexuality.[4] In addition, Victorian concepts of female sexuality resulted in a widely-held belief that women were less sexual than men.[25] Female sexuality was typically thought of only within the constructs of heterosexual marriage, and behaviors that strayed from this schema, such as masturbation, were deemed symptomatic, and often resulted in operation on the clitoris
Prior to the Act being declared unconstitutional, FGM on anyone under the age of 18 had become a felony in the United States with the passage of the Female Genital Mutilation Act of 1996
Let’s look at another article posted in 2017.
Data has been slow to come to the aid of American activists against FGM. It’s been 25 years since the government released its first solid numbers on how many women may be subjected to the practice of genital mutilation in America. In 1997, the CDC estimated that 168,000 girls and women were at risk or had undergone FGM—at the time of the last national census in 1990. A few years later, in 2000, the African Women’s Center upped the number at 227,000.
But according to estimates released on Friday, there currently are around 507,000 girls living in the U.S. who are either at risk of being cut or who have already been cut. That’s more than triple the figure from the very first nationwide count.
It has been outlawed but still exists as a problem. In other words, if a person is caught performing this operation on a young girl, they will be legally prosecuted.
Five Activists Leading the Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in Africa
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cruel reality for more than 200 million girls and women globally, while 3 million girls in Africa are at risk of undergoing FGM every year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines FGM as all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia.
This includes injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. FGM procedures vary from type 1, which is a partial removal of the clitoris, to type 3, which is the most severe form of FGM.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The practice is mostly carried out by traditional practitioners. In several settings, there is evidence suggesting greater involvement of health care providers in performing FGM due to the belief that the procedure is safer when medicalized. WHO strongly urges health care providers not to perform FGM.
FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against girls and women. It is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. The practice also violates a person’s rights to health, security and physical integrity; the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; and the right to life, in instances when the procedure results in death.
Now let’s talk about surgeries performed on today’s young girls and boys across the United State of America. Surgeries are being promoted to children and although teenagers don’t like being called children, they are not adults and being called a child is not the worst thing that could happen.
More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’
Michael, 17, arrived in the sleek white waiting room of his plastic surgeon’s office in Miami for a moment he had long anticipated: removing the bandages to see his newly flat chest.
After years of squeezing into compression undershirts to conceal his breasts, the teenager was overcome with relief that morning last December. Wearing an unbuttoned shirt, he posed for photos with his mother and the surgeon, Dr. Sidhbh Gallagher, happy to share his bare chest with the doctor’s large following on social media.
There are a multitude of things to say about genital mutilation VS the removal of a girl’s breasts (top surgery or mastectomy) or destroying a boy’s penis (bottom surgery or vaginoplasty). Notice how the above article starts out with a positive message by promoting these surgical changes with the example of a child who was elated after the surgery.
More from above article…
Few groups of young people have received as much attention. Republican elected officials across the United States are seeking to ban all so-called gender-affirming care for minors, turning an intensely personal medical decision into a political maelstrom with significant consequences for transgender adolescents and their families.
Someone could argue that a young girl would not want their clitoris removed thus the genital mutilation falls under the category of abuse or crime. What if the girl chooses to have the surgery? Would those in opposition say that there’s no way she can make that choice for herself because she doesn’t understand the consequences?
The youth of today are being lied to and manipulated into making life-long and dramatic changes that they will never be able to escape. The removal of a girl’s clitoris is horrendous however there is nothing more that needs to be done. No hormones, no medications… but a lifetime of pain. One might say that the removal of a girl’s breasts falls under the same category but there is a strong likelihood that hormones or further surgery is on the horizon.
A boy on the other hand will need to take hormones forever if he wants to keep the breasts he may be ‘trying to grow’, keep his body from rejecting surgery, or to slow the testosterone within the body. When taking hormones, he must also take certain vitamins or medications to keep other parts of his internal body working properly. Just because he has breasts or because he has had his penis removed or inverted does not mean he is suddenly a woman.
The body knows the truth and will continue existing as it was before surgery or drugs were prescribed.
More from above article…
But some clinicians have pointed to the rising demand and the turmoil of adolescent development as reasons for doctors to slow down before offering irreversible procedures. Although medical experts believe the likelihood to be small, some patients come to regret their surgeries.
How odd… you mean to say there are people who regret having these surgeries? Of course there are! We’ve seen and read about some but the media downplays their regret. If you make a thing sound safe or cool and everyone else is doing it, of course more and more will want it.
The difference between genital mutilation and gender surgeries is the supposed choice of the patient. We assume the girl having her clitoris removed is having it done against her will. We assume that the girl or boy undergoing gender surgery is the one making the life-changing choice. Both statements are probably true in most cases however there is no way a person can fully understand the consequences of the decision at such a young age.
There is this misunderstanding that teenagers are able to make these choices because they have been made fully aware of the entire process. I remember being a teen and I knew everything there was to know about what I wanted at that time. Guess what, all teens feel that way and convincing them there might be more to know is a difficult task.
So what makes us think teens know what’s best?
Primarily because they ‘say so’ and their parents either don’t want to make a fuss and get called out or have their kids angry with them. Then there is the parent who wants the attention that will ultimately come with their child’s change.
I wonder how many of those parents will be there ten or twenty years later when their child comes home and says they made a mistake. What about when the surgery backfires or the hormones have created so much internal destruction that the parent needs to take care of the adult child because they can’t do it themselves? Who’s fault it is then, I wonder?
Speaking of youth and teenagers, most common is the surgery to remove a girl’s breasts and the amount of surgeries are increasing while the doctors, pharma, and other organizations get rich. Girls who are deciding they want to be boys are going forward with the mastectomy. Boys are taking hormones and skipping surgery until later. Boys can fake it while girls cannot stop their breasts from growing without having them cut off.
Types of Gender Affirmation Surgeries, According to a Surgeon
Gender affirmation surgeries are operations that help transgender and nonbinary individuals align their physical bodies with their internal gender identity. There are generally two categories: male-to-female surgeries and female-to-male surgeries. Some of these desired outcomes may also involve hormone therapy.
Many of these surgeries evolved from other types of surgeries. They are the result of surgical advances in many fields, including urology, gynecology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and colorectal surgery.
Every woman should be angry!
Every feminist should be protesting these surgery centers!
Every father who loves his daughter should stand beside her and say enough is enough.
As we turn boys into girls and men into women we are removing the protections for real women. Some people get triggered or don’t understand this statement but there is truth in it.
Some people also think these surgeries are not relevant to the lives of those who choose not to have them but they would be wrong. Every woman or girl who is pushed aside by another person who shouldn’t be in that space at that time is being abused and harmed.
Everyone has rights in this country but these destructive activists are trying to remove these rights from anyone who is not doing something to hurt those they perceive as rigid and normal.
In other words, if you are not doing something unique or special or off the wall, then you are not one of them and you do not belong and you do not have a say and you should be banished or even destroyed. Better yet, removed from existence.
Does that sound extreme or dramatic? Does that sound like a conspiracy? I used to think over-the-top things like this must be made of science fiction horror movies but they are becoming more and more real.
Of course, we could all turn off our computers, never watch tv again, and toss our phones into the river. Hell, that might fix 75% of what’s happening today.
Then again…
