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August 5, 2022

In 2012, The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution urging countries to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), calling it an “irreparable and irreversible abuse.” The resolution was considered a major step forward in protecting women and girls.  FGM has been recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. Sweden was the first Western country to outlaw FGM, followed in 1985 by the UK. In the United States it became illegal in 1997, and in the same year the WHO issued a joint statement with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) against the practice. Moreover, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation called for abolishing the practice. 

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Fast forward and it would appear that the new wave of transgenderism among youth is reminiscent of FGM practices. But while the leftwing establishment rightly condemns female genital mutilation, it praises transgenderism as “gender-affirming” and an act of courage.

Some key facts about female genital mutilation include:

  • The partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
  • The practice has no health benefits for girls and women.
  • FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.
  • FGM is a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
  • There is evidence suggesting greater involvement of health care providers in the practice. This is known as medicalization.

Yet, creating a transgender individual includes the following:

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Female-to-male surgery is a type of sex reassignment surgery, which is also called gender affirmation surgery or gender-affirming surgery. This can take different forms, including the removal of breasts — a mastectomy — and the altering of the genital region, known as ‘bottom’ surgery” (i.e., removal of the uterus; removal of the vagina; and the construction of a penis using grafted skin).  In addition, before having female-to-male gender-affirming surgery, a person will receive testosterone replacement therapy.

Unlike FGM, these are medical choices that a patient allegedly decides upon. 

Yet, as is common with leftwing/Marxist ideology, words are massaged resulting in great vagueness.

Murat Altinay, M.D. writes:

When we look at the transgender brain, we see that the brain resembles the gender that the person identifies as.  For example, a person who is born with a penis but ends up identifying as a female often actually has some of the structural characteristics of a ‘female’ brain.

Moreover, “people who are genderfluid may find that their gender identity changes rather than remaining fixed.”

Genderfluid people may move between different genders throughout their life. Their gender may shift over a day, a week, months, or years. Because gender identity is very personal and specific to each individual, people may see and use the term ‘genderfluid’ differently. There is no standard definition for genderfluidity. A person’s gender identity may be the same as their sex assigned at birth, or it may differ.

According to Gender Spectrum, gender expression is how people present their gender to themselves and the world. People may wish to express their gender through their clothes, makeup, hairstyles, voice, pronouns, body language, and more.

For example, genderfluid people might present themselves as feminine, masculine, neutral, androgynous, and more. Genderfluid people may also change their gender expression however much they please.

Robyn Ryle a professor of sociology and gender studies and the author of  “Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Race, and Identity in Sports” and “She/He/They/Me: For the Sisters, Misters and Binary Resisters” asserts that “the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group—a new collection of scholars and elite athletes absent of transgender members—presented a controversial plan that would allow transgender women to compete as women only if they take hormones or medically transition, a policy which poses problems for intersex women as well as transgender women who do not take hormones or pursue medical transition.”

Even to those who want to show empathy, this is all rather confusing to say the least.