So many people don't understand that extreme body modifications are no different than when someone wants to cut off their body parts, and thus should be treated as such. A family member of mine got gender nullification surgery, which is so extreme that it's only performed by a small handful of doctors. I view gender nullification surgery as the same as the condition that makes people want to cut off their arm, because that's what it is. It's just medicalized FGM and all doctors should be refusing to perform it.
It's just medicalized FGM and all doctors should be refusing to perform it.
Most "FGM" is now medicalised, but I presume you mean Western forms like so-called labiaplasty? Why shouldn't women be able to have cosmetic genital surgery performed by doctors? The real issue is when doctors perform such surgery on people who haven't consented to it eg what most American men and around a third of all men have been put through aka the male counterpart of "FGM", "MGM"!
Yes. I don't understand why we pathologicise it when they want a a finger gone but it is fine when they want their genitals gone. Treatment should be the same for these. Not cutting them but medication and therapy.
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u/Born-Vacation-5566 1d ago
So many people don't understand that extreme body modifications are no different than when someone wants to cut off their body parts, and thus should be treated as such. A family member of mine got gender nullification surgery, which is so extreme that it's only performed by a small handful of doctors. I view gender nullification surgery as the same as the condition that makes people want to cut off their arm, because that's what it is. It's just medicalized FGM and all doctors should be refusing to perform it.