inflateablefilth said: But.. but it’s not sexism? Because male circs are rooted entirely in male-dominated civilizations. Men aren’t circd because of women.
Females are just as responsible as males for voting in politicians that supress anti-circumcision legislation (hello, Mike Gatto), for body-shaming intact male genitals, for continuing to perform non-therapeutic circumcision as part of a medical practice, for insisting that their own children be circumcised, and just in general for condoning the practice and not speaking about it enough. The previous president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (until the end of last year) was female. There are four female members on the AAP circumcision "task force". We all have the proverbial blood on our hands.
It's sexist in the way that it targets one sex for pseudo-medical genital excision, while the other sex is completely legally protected, even from the minimized, symbolic version. Here it is, black and white, clear as crystal, as written in US federal law:
Section 116 - Female genital mutilation
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whoever knowingly circumcises, excises, or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of another person who has not attained the age of 18 years shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) A surgical operation is not a violation of this section if the operation is--
(1) necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed, and is performed by a person licensed in the place of its performance as a medical practitioner; or
(2) performed on a person in labor or who has just given birth and is performed for medical purposes connected with that labor or birth by a person licensed in the place it is performed as a medical practitioner, midwife, or person in training to become such a practitioner or midwife.
(c) In applying subsection (b)(1), no account shall be taken of the effect on the person on whom the operation is to be performed of any belief on the part of that person, or any other person, that the operation is required as a matter of custom or ritual.
