An Idiotic Push-Poll on Circumcision
Aug. 3rd, 2012 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinI found this on the HuffPo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/08/03/foreskin-pride-march_n_1737114.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices
I can't post to this particular poll. But it's so wrong it's offensive, it's completely misrepresenting the controversy. Hardly anyone is saying adult circumcision should be banned. And it's anti-circ activists, not the pro-circ ones, who are saying it should be a personal decision.
Routine childhood circumcision means the victim never gets to make that personal decision. A personal decision means a personal decision, not the parents' or doctor's decision. If something goes wrong, childhood circumcision can mean the victim suffers life-long pain, requires skin grafts, loses their penis like David Reimer, or dies.
I find it horrifying how female and intersex children's genitalia are still being mutilated. I believe that we need to oppose any surgery on any children's genitalia, except in cases of urgent medical necessity. As long as our society makes an exception for some unnecessary cutting-up of some children's genitalia, people are going to use that exception to enable cutting-up of other children's genitalia; in the west, most often cutting-up intersex children's genitalia, because of the privileging of [false] health values [conformity to the two-sex system] over ethical values [personal autonomy].
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/08/03/foreskin-pride-march_n_1737114.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices
I can't post to this particular poll. But it's so wrong it's offensive, it's completely misrepresenting the controversy. Hardly anyone is saying adult circumcision should be banned. And it's anti-circ activists, not the pro-circ ones, who are saying it should be a personal decision.
Routine childhood circumcision means the victim never gets to make that personal decision. A personal decision means a personal decision, not the parents' or doctor's decision. If something goes wrong, childhood circumcision can mean the victim suffers life-long pain, requires skin grafts, loses their penis like David Reimer, or dies.
I find it horrifying how female and intersex children's genitalia are still being mutilated. I believe that we need to oppose any surgery on any children's genitalia, except in cases of urgent medical necessity. As long as our society makes an exception for some unnecessary cutting-up of some children's genitalia, people are going to use that exception to enable cutting-up of other children's genitalia; in the west, most often cutting-up intersex children's genitalia, because of the privileging of [false] health values [conformity to the two-sex system] over ethical values [personal autonomy].
